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Synopsis: In this speculative one-man drama, we see former President Richard Milhous Nixon alone in his study, dictating his thoughts into a tape recorder. His only company are a four-screen closed-circuit TV setup, the portraits on the walls, a bottle of Chivas Regal - and a loaded pistol. At times addressing an imaginary judge in a court of public opinion, at other times speaking to an aide named Roberto, and sometimes just talking to himself, the former chief executive reflects, in a series of meandering monologues, on his humble Quaker upbringing, his school days, his family and a political career that reached all the way to the White House. Nixon rails at his treatment by the likes of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the "goddam Kennedys," J. Edgar Hoover, Henry Kissinger, Jews, liberals, the media, "East Coast shits," among others, as he leads up to the "true" reasons for the Watergate scandal that resulted in his resignation - an act he regards as one of "secret honor."

Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Director(s): Robert Altman

Actors: Philip Baker Hall

Production: Cinecom International Films

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IMDB:: 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:: 77%

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Year:: 1984
: 90 min
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Your Honor...
the prisoner in the dock...
is guilty of one crime only...
and that crime is being...
Richard Milhous Nixon!
I - I just wanted power.
That's all.
I mean, to be president
you have got to have power!
Without power, you can't do -
You can't - Sh*t! I -
See, I know that you understand this...
'cause you had power in World War I -
See, when you've got it, it's nothing.
If you've got it, it's nothing.
They broke your heart too, didn't they?
With the League of Nations.
You know what they wrote about me?
They said at the end...
that I was running around
the White House...
crazy drunk,
talking to the pictures on the walls.
Yes, I was.
I was lonely.
I needed somebody to talk to
besides a machine.
Mother?
Mother?
Mother, l- l- I just-
I just wanted to be a- a man.
Not a nothing, not your dog...
but a real man!
Mother?
Mother!
Yes, Mother, I know what I've done!
[Stammers]
Mother. Mother.
Just...
tell me who I am.
Tell me what to do... Mama.
What? No, Mother!
I did not elect myself.
They elected me! Not once, not twice,
but all my goddamn life!
And they would do it again, too,
if they had the chance.
Oh, sure, they said
they didn't trust me.
They said, "Let Dick Nixon do it,"
and I did it!
They said they wouldn't
buy a used car from me...
but they gave me
the biggest vote in American history.
And then they flushed me
down the toilet.
And they wanted me to stay down.
They wanted me to kill myself.
Well, I won't do it.
If they want me dead...
they'll have to do it.
F*** 'em! F*** 'em!
F*** 'em! F*** 'em!
F*** 'em!
- F*** 'em!
- [Crowd Chanting] Four more years!
F*** 'em!
F*** 'em!
F*** 'em!
F*** 'em! F*** 'em! F*** 'em!
- [Crowd Continues] Four more years!
- F*** 'em!
F*** 'em!
[Crowd Continues Chanting]
Four more years! Four more years!
Four more years! Four more years!
Four more years! Four more years!
Four more years! Four more years!
Four more years! Four more years!
Four more years! Four more years!
[Chanting Fades]
- [Static]
- [Crowd Cheering, Applauding]
[Crowd Resumes Chanting, Indistinct]
[Chanting, Cheering, Applauding Fade]

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