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"Truth can also be funnier than fiction.\nFriday marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's resignation speech. But in the minutes before that fateful address on August 8th, 1974, the embattled non-crook was in better spirits than you might think.\nSEE ALSO: What Did Nixon Know?: Senator Who Asked Crucial Watergate Question Dies\nHarry Shearer \u2014 he of The Simpsons fame \u2014 released the above\u00A0re-creation of those final six minutes on Friday. It's an excerpt from Shearer's TV series Nixon's The One, which aired earlier this year on Sky Arts in the U.K. and will launch in the U.S. this fall.\n\nHarry Shearer at the Grammy Museum in 2012.Image: WireImage/Mark SullivanShearer and Nixon historian Stanley Kutler, his co-writer, combed through thousands of hours of Nixon audio tapes, using advanced audio restoration techniques to piece together the dialogue between Nixon and the CBS camera crew before and after he went to air.\nHe then meticulously recreated the scene. How'd he do? Compare it to the original here:\n\nSo? Was he or wasn't he? Let us know what you think in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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