Our Nixon
Essential Documentaries
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1h 24m
Directed by Penny Lane | 85 mins | 2013
Using an array of archival materials including television interviews, Nixon’s secretly recorded White House tapes, and more than 500 reels of long-out-of-circulation Super 8 home movies by presidential aides Dwight Chapin, John Ehrlichman, and H.R. Haldeman, Lane’s film offers an unusually intimate, candid look at the 37th President, found bidding a sentimental farewell to aides after firing them, ranting against homosexuality, nervously awaiting reviews of his “Silent Majority” speech, and enduring an unexpected antiwar protest from the supposedly square Ray Conniff singers. A portrait of the President as star in the movie of his life, blissfully unaware he’s been cast as the villain.
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