ROBERT MULDOON - THE GRIM FACE OF POWER. PART 02

Second part of a two part documentary that shows Robert Muldoon as a domineering power hungry person who managed to manipulate the economy and people to remain in control.

This documentary starts with 1978 election footage. Colleagues, friends and family are interviewed and give their accounts of the final years that Muldoon operated as Prime Minister and member of Parliament. Footage includes a drunken Muldoon declaring the 1984 snap election, his subsequent defeat, opening Parliament May 1984, parts of his farewell speech in Parliament in 1991. The programme concludes with his death on 7 August 1992.

The following are some of the people interviewed or shown throughout this programme; Richard Long (Journalist), Hugh Templeton (National Cabinet Minister), Sir George Chapman (National Party President), Derek Quigley (National Cabinet Minister), Brian Tallboys (Deputy Leader), Don McKinnon (National Whip), Sir Robert Jones, Gerry Symmans (Press Secretary), Barrie Leay (National Party Director, Bernard Galvin (Prime Minister’s Department and Treasury), Len Bayliss, Sue Wood (National Party President), Graham Scott (Treasury), David Caygill )Labour Politician, Keith Allen, David Lange, Bill Rowling, Roger Douglas, Dame Thea Muldoon, Roderick Deane (Reserve Bank), Bill Birch, Fred Dobbs (friend), John Tremewan, Ken Douglas (Fed of Labour), Gavin Muldoon (son), Harry Julian (friend), Barbara Muldoon (daughter).