Våran Nixon

Our Nixon

The novelty of Our Nixon...is that it isn’t just about the president, but also the bright young men who became his co-conspirators—and, ultimately, his sacrificial lambs.

Its best quality is its willingness to paint its key players as people, not villains or types.

...offers a compelling portrait of Nixon and those close to him, one that captures how wilfully blind they often were to their excesses, and how paranoid they were about apparent threats to them and America as a whole.

...the real power...is its poignant insight into how the impeachable situation unfolded within the president’s inner circle and how it affected the careers and personal relationships of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Chapin.

What’s remarkable in this iteration of his self-reflection, in the documentary, Our Nixon, is that it is set alongside his own Super 8 footage, as well as movies shot by Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and Special Assistant Dwight Chapin...