MOVIE TRAILERS

Looks promising! but yeah, the editing and music in this trailer felt a bit old.

I'm sold. I think this looks really good but I know a little bit more about the background of this so maybe that's why I think it looks so compelling.

Self-righteous poms harassing a mentally ill man. No thanks.

Wait... call this before my time, but did Nixon really talk like that? I mean, seriously? Move over Batman, the gold medal for most ridiculous movie voice must be handed over.

Hmm.. It looked good, but I think they could have cast Nixon a little bit better.. The guy was a great actor.. Just not very Nixon-esque

They removed it!!!

Looks good indeed.. I'm not from the States & I guess, now I've to read about the Watergate issue.. :p

Looks to be a good quality film, but I think we just saw the whole thing in that trailer?

It's good to see Clint Howard is going to be back on the big screen. To think it all started for him as the little kid, in the cowboy outfit eating a sandwich, on the Mayberry sidewalk. CLINT RULES!

It's definitely a timely sort of film.

Who taught Nixon politics? Prescot Bush, his patron. Who taught Nixon that it's not illegal if the President does it? FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, Bush sr ...heck Bush sr figures its not illegal if the CIA does it not just the President.... I suspect Nixon had broken with the militant anti communist Liberal/Conservative coalition forged by Truman and Bush after WWII. Nixon policies once President ran counter to theirs and promoted education, environmentalism, detente, the end of a economy dependent on war, national health insurence, the end of the draft and a all volunteer military, work place safety and health, downsizing the US military, promoting space development.... http://www.fpri.org/ww/0506.200408.mcdougall.nixonlegacy.html http://hnn.us/articles/6709.html excerpt: What image will posterity nurture of Nixon? The best analysis is David Greenberg’s Nixon’s Shadow, published last year. Greenberg describes five Richard Nixons that beguile and perplex the American people. First, Nixon the Villian .... Second, Nixon the Victim,.... behavior that had been excused when FDR or JFK were in office was now judged an impeachable offense. Third, there is the image of Nixon as brilliant Statesman.... Fourth, there is Nixon the Populist.... Fifth, there is Nixon the Liberal, as outlined above. Which of these images best reflects his true legacy? All of them, Greenberg concludes, because Nixon was a complex personality leading a complex nation in a highly complex era. But ... always ... Nixon the Villain for the simple reason that he is the only president obliged to resign the office. I disagree— ......Watergate will someday be understood as simply the most dramatic episode in a long-overdue rebellion against what Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., called the Imperial Presidency. The Democrats themselves forged the imperial presidency from FDR in the Depression and World War II, to Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson in the Cold War. But by the late 1960s, Democrats such as Senators J. William Fulbright, Wayne Morse, Frank Church, William Proxmire, Eugene McCarthy, and George McGovern reached the conclusion over these long emergencies that Congress had abdicated too much power to the White House. Nixon’s election in 1968 was their moment to strike. Freed from having to support their own president and war, Democrats began to hold hearings, sponsor legislation, leak secrets, and spin the media, all for the purpose of reining in the executive branch— even, or especially, in matters of national security. Between 1969 and 1980 a whole series of measures resulted, including the War Powers Act, investigations and restrictions on the CIA’s covert activities, denials of executive privilege, cutoffs of funding for military missions and foreign assistance, sanctions against allies on human rights grounds, the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, and Freedom of Information Act. Someday, after all those with a psychological stake in hating Nixon are dead, historians may come to see the impeachment proceedings as the ultimate check on the power of the president, indeed a president who had the audacity to achieve peace in Vietnam and the world despite Congress, then had the audacity to win 49 states. Someday historians may also record that no president save Lincoln and FDR took office in more trying times. Nixon inherited a war his predecessor had no strategy for winning or ending. Nixon inherited a embattled army of 540,000 demoralized troops increasingly vexed by drugs, racial tension, and mutiny. Nixon faced a hostile Congress and media. Nixon led a society rent asunder by violent riots and protests. Nixon was obliged to call Americans to discipline, patience, and sacrifice even as the baby-boomers trumpeted civil disobedience, instant gratification, and all manner of self-indulgence. Nixon inherited an economy wounded by Johnson’s guns-and-butter policies and surging inflation. Nixon confronted a world in which the Soviet Union boasted of nuclear parity, China was implacably militant, the third world seemed ready to go communist, and even America’s allies had turned sullen or hostile. Indeed, Nixon deserves enduring credit just for being willing to serve as president in 1969, and enormous credit for achieving as much as he did. In the end, Nixon faltered. But few men have ever been asked to carry so great a weight of responsibility, or for so long. That is why his best epitaph may be Henry Kissinger’s in his book Diplomacy. In retrospect, he wrote, the safest course of action for Nixon would have been to go to the Congress, early in his first term, lay out his strategy for de-escalating in Vietnam, and oblige members of Congress either to endorse his strategy or liquidate the war. But, Kissinger continues, Nixon rejected such advice because he felt that history would never forgive the appalling consequences of what he considered an abdication of executive responsibility. It was an honorable, indeed, a highly moral and intellectually correct, decision. But in the American system of checks and balances, the burden Nixon took on himself was not meant to be borne by just one man.

Well having been too young to know much about Watergate or Nixon without some research, I am thoroughly humbled by Blueskies' #24 comment. Following his comment with mine kind of makes mine seem silly. Nothing more then a quick note about how I regret missing this in theaters, and plan on seeing it on DVD.