Three great filmmakers: Haldeman, Ehrlichman & Chapin ... or, Nixon's home movies.
Cineaste › Vol. 31 Nbr. 3, June 2006
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Harry Robbins Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Dwight L. Chapin, Richard M. Nixon
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Three great filmmakers: Haldeman, Ehrlichman & Chapin ... or, Nixon's home movies.
The most famous home movie in American history features President Kennedy. But Richard M. Nixon was the home-movie president. Abraham Zapruder's thirty-second threnody made Kennedy an icon. But Nixon starred in more than forty hours of home movies, a comprehensive account of the hubris, tragedy, and banality of his presidency.
Nixon's obsession with documentation was his Achilles heel. But it was also a historian's dream. Everyone's familiar with the secret tapes that doomed Nixon's presidency. But they're only the beginning. Nixon recorded everything, and his aides collected whatever he...See the full content of this document
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