Susan Sarandon: Hillary Clinton should stop playing ‘the female victim card’

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51. He was never in it for personal wealth - down to $500 in the bank at 1 point

Following his resignation (August, 1974), the Nixons flew to their home La Casa Pacifica in San Clemente, California.[218] According to his biographer, Aitken, after his resignation, "Nixon was a soul in torment".[219] Congress had funded Nixon's transition costs, including some salary expenses, though reducing the appropriation from $850,000 to $200,000.

He was handicapped in this work by the end of his transition allowance in February, which compelled him to part with much of his staff, including Ziegler.[229] In August of 1975 , he met with British talk-show host and producer David Frost, who paid him $600,000 for a series of sit-down interviews, filmed and aired in 1977.[230] They began on the topic of foreign policy, recounting the leaders he had known, but the most remembered section of the interviews was that on Watergate. Nixon admitted that he had "let down the country" and that "I brought myself down. I gave them a sword and they stuck it in. And they twisted it with relish. And, I guess, if I'd been in their position, I'd have done the same thing."[231] The interviews garnered 45–50 million viewers—becoming the most-watched program of their kind in television history.[232]

The interviews helped improve Nixon's financial position—at one point in early 1975 he had only $500 in the bank—as did the sale of his Key Biscayne property to a trust set up by wealthy Nixon friends such as Bebe Rebozo.[233]

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