Nixon Library Opens a Door Some Would Prefer Left Closed

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

I remember seeing interviews with the staff of the Nixon Library on the Frost/Nixon DVD. You could see they were trying to put Nixon in the best light possible and downplay any wrong doing (not the only people who have tried to do that for their former leading light!)

If it sticks to the known facts, doesn't shield away telling the truth and explaining both sides of the story, then they can't ask for much more!

That was a movie I found fascinating. I watched it on a whim, thinking it'd be very dry, but I was pleasantly mistaken. Nixon's foibles and flaws are very interesting.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

That was a movie I found fascinating. I watched it on a whim, thinking it'd be very dry, but I was pleasantly mistaken. Nixon's foibles and flaws are very interesting.

What is the title of the movie?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Vendor

What is the title of the movie?

Frost/Nixon

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Frost/Nixon

OK! Thanks

[Bakkels]

Seen it too. A couple of times actually, and I highly recommend it! Great atmosphere and tension. Great acting too.

[Skybird]

Calling acts like the immense conspiracy of the Nixon party leadership a "criminal act", is dubious in itself. I mean stealing an icecream for 80 cents is a criminal act, too.

Lying in fear of the parents about having stolen an icecream, or a physical relaxation intermezzo in the Presidential office due to shame over a moment when one got caught with pants down, is one thing. Lying about the roads to wars and the reasons why thousands had to let their lives, lying about state conspiracies and high treason and bypassing the very basis of a political system and its legislation and system of checks and balances, is something very different.

[bookworm_020]

Originally Posted by Bakkels

Seen it too. A couple of times actually, and I highly recommend it! Great atmosphere and tension. Great acting too.

Both lead actors had played their caricatures in a stage play opposite each other.

[vienna]

An Op/Ed piece in today's L.A. Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-wiener-nixon-library-watergate-20110405,0,2730479.story