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Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. This film chronicles the content of those tapes, which include Nixon's conversations on the war in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers leak, his Supreme Court appointments, and more--while also exposing shocking statements he made about women, people of color, Jews, and the media.
Peter W. Kunhardt
Casts & Crew
Richard Nixon
David Brinkley
Pat Buchanan
Stephen Bull
Alexander Butterfield
John Chancellor
Charles Colson
Walter Cronkite
John Dean
Sam Donaldson
John Ehrlichman
Daniel Ellsberg
Sam Ervin
Carol Feraci
Billy Graham
Alexander Haig
H.R. Haldeman
J. Edgar Hoover
E. Howard Hunt
John F. Kennedy
Ted Kennedy
John Kerry
Henry Kissinger
Mao Zedong
George McGovern
John Mitchell
Martha Mitchell
Thomas Moorer
Edwin Newman
Julie Nixon
Pat Nixon
Tricia Nixon Cox
Dan Rather
Harry Reasoner
Adele Rogers
William Rogers
George Romney
Lenore Romney
George Rosenberg
Bob Schieffer
Daniel Schorr
Howard K. Smith
Garrick Utley
Barbara Walters
Ronald L. Ziegler
Also Directed by Peter W. Kunhardt
A chronicle of the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.
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Here is an intimate, revealing portrait of John F. Kennedy featuring never-before-seen news footage and private home movies. From his childhood through school days, World War II and the beginnings of his political career, you'll get to know him through his own words in his own voice, taken from the tape archives at the Kennedy Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.