Secret Honor

Secret Honor is a 1984 film written by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone based on their play, directed by Robert Altman and starring Philip Baker Hall as former president Richard M. Nixon, a fictional account attempting to gain insight into Nixons personality, life, attitudes and behavior. It was filmed at the University of Michigan.citation needed

In the film, he denies the relevance of Watergate and claims that he never committed a crime. He emphasizes that he was never charged with a crime, therefore he did not need or deserve a pardon. He feels that the pardon he received from President Gerald Ford forever tainted him in the publics eyes, because to get a pardon he must have been guilty.However, in the end Nixon admits that he has been the willing tool of a political network he alternately calls the Bohemian Grove and The committee of 100. The alleged interest of the committee is the heroin trade with Asia, although he followed them rather out of a lust for power plus some belief in their willingness to bring democracy to Asia. However, after the 1972 vote he received new orders from them they wanted Nixon to keep the Vietnam war going on at all costs, then go for a third term in office, so they can continue their business with the president as their strawman. Nixon further explains that at some point he decided that he did not want to go down in history as the president who sacrificed thousands of American soldiers for drug money, so he himself staged the Watergate scandal to get out of office against the massive public support. So in the end, he again puts the blame on others on the public that supports him although or even because he is a scam artist and a petty thief, just like the majority of them, as he sees it. ........

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