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Nixon (1995)

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• Continuity: When Nixon signs his resignation letter, two very different signatures are used.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Flipped shot: when Nixon enters the Beverly Hilton ballroom, the campaign signs are backwards.
  
  
• Factual errors: The film shows Nixon signing his resignation letter the day before he leaves office and prior to it being publicly announced. Historically, Nixon informed the nation in an address the night before leaving office, and then signed the letter the next day, which was his last morning in the White House.
  
  

• Factual errors: The movie depicts demonstrators being menaced by police and chanting "the whole world is watching" while Nixon is speaking at the 1968 Republican Party convention in Miami Beach. However the confrontation between demonstrators and police that is depicted actually took place during the 1968 Democratic Party convention in Chicago.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Numerous scenes throughout the movie feature President Nixon seated or standing in front of a crackling log fire, particularly in the scene where he talks to the portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Although in each scene real logs can be heard crackling, hissing, and popping, as real wood will do, close-ups of the fire reveal it to be a "fake" natural gas fireplace, with artificial logs that are "burning" evenly and cleanly with a vertical flame, and no smoke or embers coming off them.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The road Nixon is traveling along to get to the ranch in 1972 has yellow markings. At that time, although the USA was replacing the white ones, country roads would have not been changed, and even if it had been changed, the marking would not have been faded.
  
  

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