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Historian Dominic Sandbrook discusses the life of Richard Nixon.

Historian Dominic Sandbrook explains why he champions disgraced US President Richard Nixon. With Matthew Parris. From August 2010.

The disgrace and resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974 was a profoundly traumatic moment in the history of the American presidency, leaving us the endlessly influential word Watergate and a cynicism about politics which arguably has only now, with Barack Obama, started to heal. His life is thus perhaps a strange one to nominate as "great", but the historian Dominic Sandbrook unhesitatingly selected him for celebration in this programme. Matthew Parris talks to him about his intriguing choice, and calls on Professor Philip Davies of the Eccles Centre for American Studies to round out the picture.

Producer: Christine Hall.

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