Nixon's The One: How Tricky Dick Stole The Sixties...and Changed America Forever
Nixon's The One: How Tricky Dick Stole The Sixties...and Changed America Forever Previous Broadcasts
KQED World: Sat, Aug 18, 2012 -- 3:00 PM
Narrated by Dick Cavett, this program chronicles not only Richard Nixon's stunning victory in the 1968 presidential race, but the ways in which that historic election gave rise to Red State-Blue State America. Combining archival footage and original interviews with, among others, activist Tom Hayden, former Nixon advisor Kevin Phillips, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian David Maraniss, and bestselling author Rick Perlstein, it is anything but a nostalgic trip through the "flower power" decade. Rather, it's a sobering, wry look at how the Sixties divided us-and how Nixon stepped into the breach to claim the biggest prize of all.









