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Know Thy Subject

 
   

Writer James Reston Jr. believes you should know your topic thoroughly, but also believes you should use your knowledge purposefully. When Australian talk show personality David Frost hired him in 1976 to investigate President Nixon's involvement in the Watergate scandal for a series of television interviews, Reston knew learning every detail about the affair would be essential to succeed. The Frost/Nixon interviews, as they became known, proved to the American people that their former president had participated in the cover-up of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate ...

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