Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Our Nixon (2013)


OUR NIXON  (2013)  
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    D: Penny Lane
Tricky Dick through the eyes of three top aides - John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman and Dwight Chapin - all convicted felons in the Watergate cover-up and all armed, during their White House years, with Super 8 movie cameras. Television news footage and self-serving testimony complement the home movies, along with damning excerpts from the infamous Nixon tapes. There's nothing new here, really, but it's useful to be reminded, yet again, what a crude, needy, paranoid bastard we elected president once upon a time. That couldn't happen again, right?