Assassination of Richard Nixon, The
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IMDB rating: 7.20 Plot: Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother’s old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon’s broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that landed a helicopter on the White House lawn gives him the idea for his attack. Bolting onto a Baltimore plane, he attempts the hi-jacking. |
Actors: Cheadle Don,Penn Sean,Thompson Jack,Henke Brad William,Dorrance Jared,Searcy Nick,Wincott Michael,Williamson Mykelti,Greene Derek,Drama,
Who do you rate as the worst presidents and why?
My 10 worst list.
1. James Buchanan (D) 1857-61 failed to prevent the Civil War almost destroyed USA
2. Franklin Pierce (D) 1853-57 bowed to Southern states on slavery issue setting up Buchanan for failure
3. Martin Van Buren (D) 1837-41 sanctioned the slaughter of Native Americans
4. Hebert Hoover (R) 1922-33 unwittingly turned the crash of 1929 into global depression which set the stage for WW II
5. Andrew Johnson 1865-69 (D) his veto of civil rights legislation cost US nearly 100 years of pain snatching defeat from Lincoln’s jaws of victory.
6. Warren Harding (R) 1921-23 2 years (died in office) popular bcs of his low tax policy and just plain luck of economic boom of the roaring 20’s after WW I ….later found to be one of the most corrupt administrations.
7. Millard Fillmore (Whig) 1850-53 created the compromise on extending slavery setting the stage for Civil War.
8. Richard Nixon (R) 1969-74 an embarrassment, so much potential he could have been great.
9. Woodrow Wilson (D) 1913-21 most overrated president ever, his privatizing the Federal Reserve haunts US to this day; only reason I did not rate him worse was his work on anti trust laws started by Taft.
10. LBJ 1963-69 (D) A liar and cheat, escalated Vietnam, cover up of JFK assassination, expensive great society programs
Runner ups
11. George W. Bush (R) 2001-2009 I know I will take heat for not having him in rated worse but I refuse to kick a man when he is down. Too soon to rate fairly…give me a few years.
12. Bill Clinton (D) 1993-2001 Promised so much, delivered so little, embarressed so many.
13. Jimmy Carter (D) 1977-81 so well intentioned, so wrong, his moral principles kept him from passing Slick Willy on my list.
14. U.S. Grant (R) 1869-77 most corrupt administration ever, he did however establish the public school system, grant Freedmen voting rights, and used his power to restict violence by the KKK
15. John F. Kennedy (D) 1961-63 Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missle Crisis, Vietnam. I believe had Nixon won there would have been a smooth continuation of the civil rights transition that was started by Eisenhower’s desegregation of schools and Nixon would be in top 5 greastest ever.
I like the bi-partisanship of your list. most ideologues would have just listed all of the republican or democratic presidents they could think of with out actually knowing why.
bill clinton and warren harding seem to have some similarities. clinton was also blessed with good economic boom and a congress that would actually keep him in check.
EDIT: Bobby, the russians still haven’t landed on the moon. you think we really would have taken so long, even after Eisenhowers advocacy for NASA?
Cdude591 | Feb 14, 2009
obama !!!chyeah !!!chyeah!!!!
joe85985 | Feb 14, 2009
George W. Bush - He wiped his butt with the constitution.
j j | Feb 14, 2009
Clinton: He just struck me as a creep.
overthedoor91 | Feb 14, 2009
I agree with your list except for JFK. He was in office only for a very short time, the space program wouldn’t have gotten off the ground without him and the Russians would’ve been the first to land on the moon
Bobby | Feb 14, 2009
In my lifetime it has Been Clinton and Carter.
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