Nixon, Stone—And Me

摘要

As a longtime nixon intimate, I was surprised when I saw Oliver Stone's "Nixon": it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. After three hours of popcorn and pop history, even I was ready to believe that Anthony Hopkins had tried to assassinate Fidel Castro. But as an explanation of Richard Nixon, the movie flunks. In my 15 years of evercloser association with the real Nixon, I never heard a hint that he might have been involved in such a Castro plot—or that he was guiltily obsessed with JFK's murder. Nor was he the drunk Hopkins plays. And the film seriously distorts the day-to-day workings of the Nixon White House.