This film was nicely done, historically accurate with the exception of some minor creative licenses and I understand this movie was solely about the Watergate scandal and Nixon's subsequent resignation. However that in itself is not Nixon's legacy and this scandal leading to his downfall should not be what we remember him for. What he has done as president goes far beyond this scandal. I never met him, never talked to him and thus I am in no position to judge on his motives or question his integrity. However, he has unwittingly, whether it was deliberate or due to bad advice, put our country on a course of self-annihilation by severing the last tie of the US Dollar to the gold standard and turning the dollar into a purely artificial currency with a value solely based on the volume if international trade. He was the first US American leader to visit communist China and opened trade negotiations despite the fact that openly he was committed to fighting communism, not make deals with it, inevitably leading the US into a trade deficit with China that is now on the verge of destroying us financially and economically. He hired CIA operatives to do several dirty jobs for him, one being Howard Hunt whom he hired to dig up dirt on senator Edward Kennedy upon which tragically a woman ended up dead in Kennedy's car. The same Howard Hunt who was identified as being one of the three hobos that were first arrested and then released immediately after the Kennedy assassination (odd coincidence), a fact Nixon not only knew about but helped cover up. He not only continued the war in Vietnam he had inherited from Johnson but in fact inflamed the whole situation by sending more troops, ordering bombing raids into North Vietnam killing untold numbers of civilians and would have kept up that war had it not been for the tremendous pressure from the American people, a war which he himself said was not only unnecessary but achieved absolutely noting. I could go on and on about the work he did in our name during his term in office but I think this is enough to conclude that he was one individual who gave the office of president of the United States a very bad reputation that it has to this day not been able to recover from.
So what precisely is his legacy?
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Marco
A nice interesting movie together with a imformative docu
Reviewed in Germany on June 5, 2011
E. M. Wessels
Excellent overview of the last days of President Nixon
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 30, 2010