I am watching "Nixon" tonight. The version with Anthony Hopkins. What a sorry man.

[Lil Missy]

[taterguy]

1. I thought he was pretty good in Silence of the Lambs

I also enjoyed him in a Bridge Too Far

[Lil Missy]

3. That's really why I rented the movie. Because I like Anthony Hopkins.

Silence of the Lambs, excellent!

[Richard Steele]

2. Nixon was never a monster. he was just a GUY trapped in a world he never made.

If he hadn't had more INTEGRITY than was good for him,
that "Watergate" thing would never have happened.

He could have had those burglars KILLED, like so many Presidents before him...
but he had this crazy idea that he should be LOYAL to his employees,
and that came back to bite him in the ass.


By today's standards, Richard Nixon governed as a Moderate Liberal.
George McGovern told me so himself, a few years back.

[taterguy]

4. The truth is somewhere in between

He was much more liberal on domestic issues than most people realize.

However, his foreign policy was rather monstrous for the people who were killed because of his decisions.

It's true that others could have successfully covered up Watergate but would a decent man have approved that in the first place?

It wasn't just about placing a bug at the DNC.

It started as an attempt to destroy Daniel Ellsberg, the man who knew too much about Indochina and was doing his best to let the whole world know what we were doing there and why.

Of course, he never would have gotten in trouble if he hadn't gone to Duke.

It was his bad luck that Sam Ervin was a loyal UNC alum.

[Richard Steele]

5. The truth about most things is almost always "somewhere in between""

Richard Nixon's "truth" is just about the most 'in between'
set of circumstances EVER.


Late last night,
I was watching the Tube
when I saw the most incredible thing:

Someone had invented
a mechanical man
that looked just like a Human Being!

I started to
become terrified,
good Gawd, it was making me sick!

But then I began
to realize
'tweren't no one but "Tricky Dick!

[nytemare]

6. "Frost/Nixon" was a good portrayal, as well.

I can't decide whether I thought Hopkins or Langella made a better Nixon. Both sort of made me just feel sorry for him.

[old mark]

7. He always struck me as someone with very little real "self" inside

a mask. He was such a public person, meaning for display purposes only- you will have a hard time finding anything the man really liked or enjoyed once he got into politics.
He was a Navy officer in WWII and is remembered for being a hot poker player at that time. I don't know of much of anything he really did for fun after that.
He seemed such a sad empty person.

mark