Leading historian David Reynolds takes a fresh look at the controversial career and embattled presidency of Richard Nixon. Reynolds argues that Nixon was genuinely successful as an international statesman. His historic visits to communist China and the Soviet Union helped thaw the Cold War. Yet, behind the scenes, Nixon's diplomacy was a story of intrigue and rivalry. The very methods that won him acclaim on the international stage also doomed his presidency in the infamous Watergate scandal. An intimate psychological profile, the film reveals how Nixon was driven by a deep inferiority complex and ruthless ambition to escape a loveless, impoverished background. Nixon clawed his way to the most powerful job in the world, yet could never shake off this past.

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