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OUR NIXON
August 1, 2013  | By David Bianculli

CNN, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

In this new documentary, director Penny Lane (honest; that’s her name) combines vintage news footage and TV interviews (conducted by Barbara Walters, Phil Donahue, Mike Wallace and others) with a new find: excerpts from scores of hours of private Super-8 home-movie footage, shot by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin when they were highly placed aides in the Nixon White House. The images from Richard Nixon’s groundbreaking China trip are the best, visually, but Our Nixon scores throughout by marrying these often innocuous film clips with quotes from the Nixon tapes – as when he goes on a rant about the "new movie" with the “homosexual agenda” he’s just seen on TV, which turns out to be All in the Family. Priceless.

 
 
 
 
 
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