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Nixon

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Nixon	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })1995note One year after its subject died biopic of the thirty-seventh President of the United States, directed by Oliver Stone and starring Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon. The film explores Nixon and his triumphs and his failings, culminating in his resignation of the office of the presidency in disgrace following the revelation of his abuse of office and executive privilege following the Watergate scandal.It was the second movie Stone made following JFK, and like the earlier film — an angry, searing and rabble-rousing examination of the assassination of John F. Kennedy — it drew a lot of controversy... but not necessarily for the reasons you'd expect. Unlike the earlier film, which was heavily presented as fact, this movie admits from the start it's based on 'an incomplete historical record' and is intended as less a hatchet job and more an attempt to understand who Nixon was and why he was compelled to act the way he did. As such, it earned critics from both sides; while supporters of Nixon (including his daughters) disowned it as inaccurate (in particular, it was argued that the depiction of Nixon and his wife's alcoholism and pill addiction was grossly exaggerated), some critics of Nixon argued that it wasn't harsh enough on the former president in that, while hardly downplaying his faults, it suggested that there was the potential (and even the realization) of greatness in the man. Stone would later paint a similar portrait of George W. Bush in the eponymous W..Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The plot is largely non-linear, at least for the first half, and essentially involves Nixon flashing back through his past as he listens to his secret tape recordings as the Watergate scandal intensifies, the tapes triggering memories of his childhood, his unsuccessful campaign for president against John F. Kennedy in 1960 and his wilderness years following an equally unsuccessful campaign for governor of California in 1962. The second half follows a more linear form, kicking off when Nixon is elected President in 1968, and follows his presidency through Vietnam, his groundbreaking visit to China and, of course, Watergate.
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Nixon / int_10cdfe4b	type	Fall Guy
Nixon / int_10cdfe4b	comment	Fall Guy: Nixon makes it plainly obvious to Dean that he's being set up as one. This pushes Dean into being a whistleblower. Bonus points for Dean using the terminology.
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Nixon / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Nixon / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Mostly averted, though Nixon's friend Trini Lopez is a thinly-disguised Bebe Rebozo, and "Jack Jones" is a composite of businessmen like H.L. Hunt and Howard Hughes, whom Nixon had murky dealings with before and during his presidency.
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Nixon / int_15184afb	type	This Loser Is You
Nixon / int_15184afb	comment	This Loser Is You:
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Nixon / int_18baa751	type	Historical Villain Downgrade
Nixon / int_18baa751	comment	Historical Villain Downgrade: A few examples, partly due to Rule of Drama and the need to refine a narrative that already has Lots And Lots Of Characters. John Dean is probably the most extreme example, to the extent that he's not introduced until the Watergate break-in and shown to be extremely reluctant to participate in the cover-up. The latter is debatable, since Dean realized that Nixon wanted to scapegoat him as the scandal grew out of control, and thus began cooperating with government prosecutors. The former is blatantly false, since Dean had worked for the Nixon White House since 1970 and was involved in his harassment campaigns against political opponents long before the break-in. John Ehrlichman is often treated as the Only Sane Man trying to check Nixon's more extreme actions. While Ehrlichman was considered one of the more liberal members of Nixon's inner circle (being a major proponent of environmental reforms, for one), he had more direct involvement in the White House's dirty tricks operation than Haldeman, who is portrayed much less sympathetically, and shared Haldeman's propensity for ruthlessness towards the Administration's enemies.
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Nixon / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
Nixon / int_19da8a03	comment	Nixon also claims the way was cleared for him by "four bodies", implied to be JFK, RFK and Nixon's two brothers who died of tuberculosis (if they had lived his family would never have had enough money to send Richard to law school and he never would have been a politician).
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Nixon / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
Nixon / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?: An undercurrent of the story. A central theme is Nixon's paranoia over "the whole Bay of Pigs thing" coming out again — with "Bay of Pigs" heavily implied and speculated to be code about some conspiracy, real or imagined, that Nixon believed existed about who actually killed Kennedy, which he was afraid to discover the real truth about. In his tense meeting with the shadowy Texas businessmen and Cuban exiles in 1963 (the day before Kennedy arrived, let us noted), it's hinted that they have something to do with it. Not quite JFK, but his later meeting with J. Edgar Hoover contains a hint that Hoover has some responsibility for Robert Kennedy's assassination ("They should shoot the son-of-a-bitch.") Nixon also claims the way was cleared for him by "four bodies", implied to be JFK, RFK and Nixon's two brothers who died of tuberculosis (if they had lived his family would never have had enough money to send Richard to law school and he never would have been a politician).
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Nixon / int_20d2ccef	type	Silent Majority
Nixon / int_20d2ccef	comment	Silent Majority: Invoked and namecheked by Nixon during his campaign speeches, remarking that the protesters are a Vocal Minority.
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Nixon / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Nixon / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man / Sanity Ball: Inverted in that almost everyone realizes Nixon is increasingly unstable following Watergate, but can't do a thing about it. Ehrlichman and Haig play the role most often though.
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Nixon / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Nixon / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: The movie opens with Matthew 16:26 — "For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
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Nixon / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Nixon / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: J. Edgar Hoover is universally feared, and with good reason: like his real life counterpart, he has dirt on everyone. After asking for Hoover's support in his bid for the presidency, Nixon later muses that Hoover's agreement was really his way of putting Nixon "on notice" that he'd better toe the line. CIA director Dick Helms along with Hoover are two people Nixon knows never to "fuck with", since they both know all about Nixon's dirty cuban mafia dealings while he was Vice president, which may or may not have links to the Kennedy assassination.
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Nixon / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Nixon / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: In a quiet moment, Nixon laments the shooting of the students protesting over the bombing of Cambodia. He admits that he wants to send his condolences to the families, "But Nixon can't."
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Nixon / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Nixon / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Nixon views the Kennedys and particularly JFK as his.
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Nixon / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Nixon / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Nixon is constantly dropping this. This is Truth in Television; Nixon was reportedly rather foul-mouthed in private and evidence of it is on the tapes, as portrayed in a minor subplot. However, it's made to seem even worse when Nixon orders politically damaging things in the tape to be "Expletive Deleted" too. One aide remarks that it'll make it seem as if he does nothing but swear. Nixon doesn't care.
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Nixon / int_363f94c9	type	Awful Truth
Nixon / int_363f94c9	comment	Awful Truth: Nixon is too terrified to find out what he believes to be the real circumstances behind the Kennedy assassination.
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Nixon / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Nixon / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Given Kennedy's assassination, the unstable inner and foreign situation and the shady people he's dealing with, Nixon's fears seem justified. However, at a certain point his paranoia goes too far and he ends up alienating everyone from him, and in a deteriorated mental state to boot.
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Nixon / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Nixon / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: If you know your history.
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Nixon / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Nixon / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Broadly, Nixon is angry about how this process works and desperate that it happens to him. The film focuses on the various presidential portraits in the background of the White House, with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, obviously the tradition that Nixon aspires to, and Nixon is happy to point out the shortcomings and failures of other presidents in an effort to mitigate his own misdeeds. At the end, he sees Kennedy's unfinished presidential portrait and realizes that this process has happened to Kennedy and there's not anything he can do about it.
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Nixon / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Nixon / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Nixon claims he has a plan to end the Vietnam war immediately and "with honour". J. Edgar Hoover is watching the televised interview at the time and notes that Nixon is lying through his teeth, and that's what makes him a useful politician.
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Nixon / int_44c59f9f	type	IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy
Nixon / int_44c59f9f	comment	I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Pat Nixon overcomes her reticence about Nixon's political career when he assures her that being President will make him happy. It doesn't, and their marriage suffers immensely.
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Nixon / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
Nixon / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: The real life Richard Nixon is really the Trope Codifier. In the movie Nixon claims to be honest at least about his financial assetts.note Which is also dubious, since investigators found Nixon used government funds to pay for his private estates in California and Florida and avoided paying income tax while in office. John F. Kennedy as well. On the 1960 election:
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Nixon / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
Nixon / int_483152c4	comment	The Resenter: Nixon resents Kennedy's popularity, even long after his death.
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Nixon / int_48aac61d	type	Chummy Commies
Nixon / int_48aac61d	comment	Chummy Commies: Brezhnev is sympathetic towards Nixon and both aim at reducing nuclear weapons on both sides. Mao as well is friendly with Nixon, although in a much darker way.
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Nixon / int_4f4e43cc	type	Always Second Best
Nixon / int_4f4e43cc	comment	Always Second Best: Nixon has a heavy dose of this in this film with regards to Kennedy, even if ultimately as he's aware and the film portrays it, his was a far more consequential presidency than Kennedy's (even without the Assassination cutting Kennedy's career short).
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Nixon / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Nixon / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man
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Nixon / int_51300dbf	type	FatBastard
Nixon / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Kissinger is a fat, lecherous and shady Professional Butt-Kisser.
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Nixon / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Nixon / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Nixon says this about JFK.
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Nixon / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Nixon / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Haldeman for Nixon, being both ruthless and unerringly loyal. Truth in Television, though the film downplays Ehrlichman's role as Co Dragon.
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Nixon / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Nixon / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Pat, which becomes obvious during Nixon's breakdown.
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Nixon / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Nixon / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: The hints towards various groups involvement in the assassination of the Kennedys is this for those who agree with the Warren Commission report. Stone (through Howard Hunt) also claims that Nixon personally ordered the Watergate break-in, an argument few historians would endorse (though the issue of who precisely did is still contentious, to say the least).
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Nixon / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
Nixon / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: Nixon promises his wife he's quitting politics after his defeat in 60, but then he runs again in 62. Afterwards he retires to a civilian life when Pat asks for a divorce. Nixon does a comeback in 68.
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Nixon / int_585db628	type	Vote Early, Vote Often
Nixon / int_585db628	comment	Vote Early, Vote Often: Nixon's camp accuses Kennedy of stuffing the ballot boxes, but Nixon doesn't contest the election. The movie doesn't mention that Nixon did his own stuffing too.
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Nixon / int_60af5e4	type	Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard
Nixon / int_60af5e4	comment	Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard: Said by Nixon when he's asked about a statement that connects high-level White House officials to the Watergate break-in.
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Nixon / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
Nixon / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Nixon laments this after losing his first presidential bid to Kennedy; that his rival outspent him and yet still cheated by bringing up top secret information he had been briefed on about the Eisenhower administration's failure to act in Cuba that made Nixon look bad by association. Nixon himself turns out to be this; he was likely to have won the 1972 Presidential election easily anyway (albeit because of a weak field of opposing candidates), but his paranoia just couldn't stop him from ordering the Watergate break-in to spy on them further, when ended up being his undoing.
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Nixon / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Nixon / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: John Dean, who becomes a major witness against Nixon during the Senate investigation.
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Nixon / int_62663d88	type	Men Don't Cry
Nixon / int_62663d88	comment	Men Don't Cry: Nixon believes in this and says it word for word, adding that "you don't cry, you fight.". Averted during his final moments at the helm.
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Nixon / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Nixon / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Nixon's relationship with Pat and his daughters. Though occasionally strained, he clearly loves them and their interactions provide Nixon's most sympathetic moments.
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Nixon / int_66c29032	type	No Such Agency
Nixon / int_66c29032	comment	No Such Agency: When Nixon feels that he can't rely on the FBI or the CIA, he institutes his own personal agency; The White House Plumbers.
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Nixon / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Nixon / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Played for drama: we cut directly from Nixon's idealistic acceptance speech (calling for government reform and a "New American Revolution") to footage of American warplanes bombing Cambodia.
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Nixon / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Nixon / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Larry Hagman turns up as a Texas oil billionaire.
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Nixon / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Nixon / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: While Nixon doesn't exemplify correction, the shadowy men who want to control the country behind the scenes stand out in this regard. Just in case you didn't realize Hoover or "Jack Jones" were pure evil, they happily drop racial epithets to clue you in. At one point, Haldeman gives a violently anti-Semitic tirade against the New York Times. Ehrlichman, Dean and Kissinger (himself Jewish) are visibly shocked, but Nixon needless to say is unfazed.
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Nixon / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Nixon / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: Nixon is aghast when he hears himself calling African-Americans "niggers", stating This Cannot Be! in Third-Person Person.
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Nixon / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
Nixon / int_78c5ce7e	comment	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Something the real Nixon actually believed and admitted, although this Nixon paraphrases it a bit. Nixon scoffs when one of his aides suggests Congress might invoke his invasion of Cambodia as grounds for impeachment:
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Nixon / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Nixon / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: And the other question that Nixon ask himself (and never could answer): "Can you imagine what this man could have been if he had ever been loved?"
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Nixon / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Nixon / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder:
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Nixon / int_7d791b62	type	Rewind, Replay, Repeat
Nixon / int_7d791b62	comment	Rewind, Replay, Repeat: Nixon hears his tapes over and over again.
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Nixon / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Nixon / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Although it's not labored on that much, it is suggested that Nixon and Pat Nixon have trouble controlling their booze.
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Nixon / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
Nixon / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: Nixons closed-door meeting with Mao has shades of this. Mao is clearly depressed about his legacy and flat out bored with political life. He's more interested in asking why Kissinger is such a ladies man. Nixon gets there too. His own wife remarks he has alienated everyone, including her.
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Nixon / int_806b07e7	type	Black Eyes of Evil
Nixon / int_806b07e7	comment	Black Eyes of Evil: Thanks to a trick of the light during filming or special effects, depending on who you believe, in a deleted scene where Nixon meets C.I.A Director Dick Helms, Helms' eyes at one point go completely black as Nixon is talking about evil — specifically, the evil that the system that he and Helms represent has unleashed on the world. While Helms wasn't exactly a nice man, his estate perhaps not surprisingly objected to the implication that he was some kind of demon, and the scene was removed from the theatrical release (the director's cut restored it).
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Nixon / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
Nixon / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: J. Edgar Hoover's sexual proclivities are well known to Nixon and others. When discussing Hoover, Nixon even refers to him as "the old queen" and "that old cocksucker". Since Hoover is The Dreaded for having all the dirty goods on everyone else, nobody would dare use Hoover's Open Secret against him.
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Nixon / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
Nixon / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: Played with in the character of Richard Nixon (emphasis on "tragic") in a way that it makes Nixon into a giant case of What Could Have Been. Lamp Shaded by Kissinger.
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Nixon / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Nixon / int_875615dd	comment	Nixon is constantly dropping this. This is Truth in Television; Nixon was reportedly rather foul-mouthed in private and evidence of it is on the tapes, as portrayed in a minor subplot.
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Nixon / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Nixon / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Nixon.
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Nixon / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Nixon / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of Slave to PR and Image politics in general, as well as the vagaries of historical reputation.
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Nixon / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Nixon / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Starts with Nixon shortly before his resignation, flashes back to different points in his life (Early in his presidency, the 1960 campaign, his childhood). The movie drops this in the second half and settles into a chronological narrative.
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Nixon / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Nixon / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Nixon refers to Nixon from time to time.
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Nixon / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Nixon / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Nixon, very much Truth in Television. A great joke is when he sees the tape transcripts and sees all the swears and is shocked, shocked, that it has so many swear words and tries to blacken it out, making the pages covered in ink.
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Nixon / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Nixon / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: After threatening to drop the big one on north Vietnam while discussing the matter at dinner with his advisors, Nixon orders his steak be taken away because it has leaked a large pool of blood on his plate. They were also discussing the bombings in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, and the four dead students of Kent State. Lots of blood. Earlier in the film, the horse rearing up and panicking when J. Edgar Hoover chats with Nixon.
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Nixon / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
Nixon / int_921cdca8	comment	Nothing Personal: Haldeman points this out when Mitchell is being cut loose.
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Nixon / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Nixon / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Depends on whether you view Nixon as a villain or not, but the last third of the movie basically features Nixon having a slow-burning one as he becomes increasingly delusional, frantic and paranoid as the Watergate crisis spirals out of control. After he finally signs his resignation letter and is alone with Henry Kissinger, he asks Kissinger to join him on his knees in prayer and essentially starts crying and babbling incoherently. According to Kissinger himself, this episode actually happened.
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Nixon / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Nixon / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Nixon believes all his dirty activities are necessary for national security and doesn't believe running them makes him a criminal.
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Nixon / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
Nixon / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: Nixon builds his early political career on blaming all the ills of America on the alleged Communist conspiracy to subvert and overthrow America, teaming up with Joe McCarthy during the height of the Red Scare. He still has the same mindset when dealing with the anti-bombing protests during the early days of his presidency, believing that America's youth are being manipulated by the Communist establishment. It's only towards the end of his first term that Nixon concedes that such a mindset no longer has a place in politics and on the international stage. He goes on to open diplomatic relations with China and gets the SALT 1 and 2 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaties signed with Russia.
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Nixon / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Nixon / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: How J. Edgar Hoover is portrayed, in his interaction with a pool-boy while Clyde Tolson smirks beside him.
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Nixon / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
Nixon / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Nixon has a friendly and humanizing relationship with Manolo, his valet.
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Nixon / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Nixon / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: A tense meeting between Nixon and John Dean in which Dean begins to suspect that Nixon is setting him up to be a scapegoat suddenly takes a turn for the comic when Nixon, escorting Dean out of the Oval Office, pulls the handle off the door, prompting a moment of awkwardness as the two remain trapped in the office. What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: The symbolism is kind of obvious. Another tense meeting with General Haig in a corridor ends with Nixon dramatically trying not to get impeached and denying it all. He walks toward a big hall full of "P.O.Ws", while looking deeply in distress ... and change suddenly his face to give a big politician smile.
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Nixon / int_a62e50b8	type	Scandalgate
Nixon / int_a62e50b8	comment	Scandalgate: Natch.
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Nixon / int_a7b3134	type	I Just Want to Be Loved
Nixon / int_a7b3134	comment	I Just Want to Be Loved: Nixon lives in the shadow of Kennedy because of it.
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Nixon / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Nixon / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: As controversial as he was, the last hour of the film will make you feel sorry for Nixon. He suffers a physical and mental breakdown, alienates himself from his family and loses most of his close allies. By the time he resigns, he's a broken, sobbing man who can barely keep a hold on himself as he leaves the White House.
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Nixon / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Nixon / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: At dinner with his advisors, Nixon threatens to take this action in Vietnam if he feels it will force the north Vietnamese to surrender. Everyone is aghast by the notion until Henry Kissinger chimes in that they have to entertain the possibility.
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Nixon / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Nixon / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!:
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Nixon / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Nixon / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Nixon is elected President, his longtime dream, but once he gets there he starts to endure The Chains of Commanding. His wife expected that the office would make him happy, but he's anything but.
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Nixon / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
Nixon / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: Nixon's notorious "madman theory" is invoked while discussing the invasion of Cambodia and the possibility of using nuclear weapons against North Vietnam.
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Nixon / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Nixon / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: The portrayal of Hannah Nixon verges on this.
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Nixon / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Nixon / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Some major Watergate figures like Chuck Colson and Gordon Liddy make only brief appearances in the story, while others (Jeb Magruder, Donald Segretti, Maurice Stans, to name a few) don't appear at all. Which is understandable since the story's already top-loaded with characters.
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Nixon / int_b915d4cd	type	OrwellianEditor
Nixon / int_b915d4cd	comment	Orwellian Editor: Nixon becomes one of these in a scene where his aides are transcribing his secret recordings, in which he rants about the amount of swearing and less-than-politically correct statements he's made. As well as the obvious reasons of trying to present himself in the best possible light ("The world will see what I show them! From page one!"), it's also used to display how increasingly delusional he's becoming — he frantically (and apparently sincerely) insists that he never said these things despite the fact that his own taping system has recorded him saying them.
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Nixon / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Nixon / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Nixon, who says it word by word, thinks the media and public turning against him are all because they don't like him, and nothing at all to do with the horrible things he did as president.
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Nixon / int_bcc9f4f7	type	Realpolitik
Nixon / int_bcc9f4f7	comment	Realpolitik: Nixon believes America will look weak and exploitable on the world stage by pulling out of Vietnam immediately. He decides instead to bomb the hell out of Vietnam and Cambodia for a few more years to appear in a position of dominance before accepting the same peace treaty with the North Vietnamese which they had been offering the whole time.
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Nixon / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
Nixon / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: The Watergate break-in, a "third-rate burglary", opens a can of worms that exposes Nixon's shady deals and terminates his presidency.
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Nixon / int_c209fc7	type	Chaste Hero
Nixon / int_c209fc7	comment	Chaste Hero: Nixon isn't very interested in sex, neither with Pat or the floozies at Jack Jones' house. He considers it a point of pride compared to Jack Kennedy's womanizing.
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Nixon / int_c23525d4	type	Character Title
Nixon / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title
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Nixon / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Nixon / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: A director's cut was released with 28 additional minutes, mostly centered around a scene where Nixon meets with CIA director Richard Helms, which was initially removed because Helms threatened with a lawsuit, and another on Tricia Nixon's wedding day, where J. Edgar Hoover persuades Nixon to install the taping system in the Oval Office.
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Nixon / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Nixon / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To Citizen Kane: the opening shot of the White House, ominously viewed through the metal fence during a storm, mirrors the reveal of Xanadu. As well as any number of horror films featuring a scene / opening with an ominous mansion. Also from Citizen Kane: the nonlinear structure, use of a fake newsreel to give background on Nixon's life, and the tool of a mystery at the center of the subject's soul (Rosebud in Kane, the Watergate tapes in Nixon). Nixon uses the line "Follow the Money" from All the President's Men (see Call-Forward above for more details).
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Nixon / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Nixon / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse / I Coulda Been a Contender!: Exaggerated by Nixon. He is the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Even so, that is little compared to his younghood's dreams. He is full of bitterness:
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Nixon / int_ca01f9a3	type	Mononymous Biopic Title
Nixon / int_ca01f9a3	comment	Mononymous Biopic Title
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Nixon / int_ca9249e	type	Badass Gay
Nixon / int_ca9249e	comment	Badass Gay: Hoover is characterized as gay in his private life and his main trait is his dominance over powerful elected officials.
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Nixon / int_cbd2bfa3	type	Glory Days
Nixon / int_cbd2bfa3	comment	Glory Days: Nixon invokes Lincoln's regime as this as for the Republican party. He points to the college students that it was the Republicans that abolished slavery during The American Civil War and that his ancestors included abolitionists and there was a point when they were the progressive party.
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Nixon / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Nixon / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title
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Nixon / int_d2bff11f	type	Loads and Loads of Characters
Nixon / int_d2bff11f	comment	Loads and Loads of Characters: The conspiracy is so intricate that almost every minor character has some relevancy.
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Nixon / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Nixon / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Nixon starts the taping of The White House in order to control the leaks. The tapes become a potentially fatal evidence during his impeachment. Kennedy wins the election because during the debate, he starts asking questions about Cuba Nixon knows he can't answer.
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Nixon / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Nixon / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Invoked by Nixon; he can start a détente with the Communist countries because he has the proven reputation of a hardliner. Anyone but him would be lambasted for being soft. Let's all say it together: "Only Nixon could go to China."
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Nixon / int_d5dfb30a	type	Professional Butt-Kisser
Nixon / int_d5dfb30a	comment	Professional Butt-Kisser: Kissinger gets this treatment, most notably in his introductory scene where he supports Nixon's invasion of Cambodia over the protests of Nixon's cabinet (whom he labels "cowards").
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Nixon / int_dcdde3b	type	Inherent in the System
Nixon / int_dcdde3b	comment	Inherent in the System: Argued as the real cause Nixon cannot stop the Vietnam War:
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Nixon / int_de06f84d	type	WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic
Nixon / int_de06f84d	comment	What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: The symbolism is kind of obvious.
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Nixon / int_def127cc	type	Leave Behind a Pistol
Nixon / int_def127cc	comment	Leave Behind a Pistol: Lampshaded by Nixon at the beginning, but not an actual example for obvious reasons.
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Nixon / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Nixon / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Chief of Staff Al Haig yells out "I'm in Charge here!", when Nixon is admitted to hospital. This is a reference to his bizarre press conference (while serving as Secretary of State) that he held when President Ronald Reagan suffered an assassination attempt. Nixon also mentions liking Elvis Presley at one point, referencing Nixon's famous meeting with Elvis.
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Nixon / int_e031b7ef	type	Slave to PR
Nixon / int_e031b7ef	comment	Slave to PR: Nixon is very much so. Indeed the film generally looks at how mass media and TV coverage greatly affected Nixon's mentality and the kind of pressures this kind of media influence had on transparency and surveillance. Nixon becomes obsessed with Kennedy's Controversy-Proof Image and becomes The Resenter that his image is not good enough. Most of the movie is about Nixon's paranoia as a president stemming from the fact that he's always being watched, his actions judged and scrutinized at every step of the way which requires politicans to create a media personality to project on camera, often serving as the Designated Hero (in the case of Kennedy) and the Designated Villain (in the case of Nixon). Nixon's watergate scandal, his wiretapping and his personal life becomes all about the image and eventually, he starts Becoming the Mask.
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Nixon / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Nixon / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: In a very ironic touch, Nixon uses the line "Follow The Money" when he wants to link the subversive protesters to the USSR. The iconic line summarizes Woodward and Bernstein's investigation of Watergate and was created by the film All the President's Men.
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Nixon / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Nixon / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: While the movie is generally true to Nixon's life, certain aspects have been compressed, altered and played with for dramatic value. The movie, granted, admits this straight up.
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Nixon / int_e5c64f3f	type	Shame If Something Happened
Nixon / int_e5c64f3f	comment	Shame If Something Happened: The shadowy group tells Nixon that his position "can change. In a heartbeat". Nixon - who among other things controls the IRS - is able to turn the tables.
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Nixon / int_e8878c29	type	Despair Speech
Nixon / int_e8878c29	comment	Despair Speech: Nixon gives one to his wife as they are leaving the White House.
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Nixon / int_e8cfde67	type	Ambiguous Disorder
Nixon / int_e8cfde67	comment	Ambiguous Disorder: This portrayal of Nixon is a virtual catalogue of neuroses. He's paranoid and unwilling to take blame, constantly tries to boost his own scarce self-esteem, holds grudges towards almost everyone, has worrying mood swings and no matter how much power he gains, it's never enough.
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Nixon / int_ea8de006	type	Traitor Shot
Nixon / int_ea8de006	comment	Traitor Shot: Kissinger briefly receives a few of them when the leaks are being discussed.
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Nixon / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Nixon / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Though the Anachronic Order makes it less obvious, Stone subtly introduces assorted characters in minor appearances before they became prominent. For instance, Kissinger's first scene is a brief appearance at a party thrown by Nelson Rockefeller (Governor of New York and one of Nixon's presidential rivals), and Haig appears in the background of several early scenes without speaking, or with only a throwaway line ("That's what they're doing, Mr. President!") before he takes over as Nixon's Chief of Staff.
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Nixon / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
Nixon / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point / Jerkass Has a Point: Maybe some people would not call a 19 year old college kid who protests against Vietnam War a Dumbass or a Jerkass, but Nixon certainly does:
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Nixon / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Nixon / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: Nixon is embittered by the lack of credit he is given for ending The Vietnam War and improving the peaceful relations with Russia and China.
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Nixon / int_f844a17c	type	Blame Game
Nixon / int_f844a17c	comment	Blame Game: Nixon and his administration go absolutely crazy trying to pin the blame for their activities on underlings in order to keep the growing attention they're getting away from the White House. Eventually Nixon gets so desperate that he winds up cutting loose practically everyone up to his closest advisors.
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Nixon / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Nixon / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Nixon knows that people love Kennedy and hate him. What he truly doesn't gasp is why. It's made even more tragic because Nixon knows Kennedy was just as flawed a person as he is.
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