James Reston Jr., Author With a Hand in Nixon Apology, Dies at 82
New York Times
A historian and novelist, he provided a 96-page “interrogation” memo for David Frost’s TV interviews that prodded Nixon to say, “I let the American people down” over Watergate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/us/james-reston-jr-dead.html