Nixon Remembered (4): Weeping at Pat Nixon's Funeral

-Part 4-
Richard M. Nixon Remembered (1994)

This segment of the documentary features a clip from the funeral of former First Lady Pat Nixon in 1993, a short part of an interview with Nixon discussing the need to seize the moment after the Persian Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet Union to create a lasting peace, part of a Nixon speech from the early 1990s about opportunity and the American Dream, comments by Bill Clinton and ordinary Americans on Nixon's death, footage from Watergate hearings in 1974, and part of Nixon's funeral. Also included is a voice over interview fragment with Nixon's daughter Tricia, in which she laments that he never knew how many people adored him.

This documentary is a compilation of television clips from the days immediately after President Richard Nixon's death in April 1994. Scenes from his funeral (at his Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California) are interspersed throughout the program, as are remembrances from those who knew him and from regular Americans. Also included are film footage, interviews, and photographs of Nixon.

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[andrelebaron]

the man who really won the cold war and secured peace for a half century, got out of Vietnam and would have saved South Vietnam if Congress hadn't decided to fuck him over by cutting off their aid.

[thesmarties19]

Pat Nixon is my great nan's cousin, may they both rest in peace <3 xxx

[Michael Warren]

Nixon did blow it on watergate but like I said about Clinton as well any if us without sin. Cast the first stone

[Evisluper Desdemona]

I prefer to remember war criminals as war criminals.

[AlekWheeler]

Its not fair to judge nixon on what he did at his worst. while admittingly it was worse then what other presidents had done at the time, in this day and age its almost normal. I mean, bush stole an election(or two), reagen had the contra affair, there are more wars then ever..its a bit sad that what was once an atrocity has become the norm.

Nixon at his best is surely as good as, say Clinton, Carter or even Johnson.

I prefer to remember him for the good he did rather then the bad is all.

[Javier Garcia]

Richard Nixon, Rest in SHAME.

[msmithstud]

i'd take Watergate again anyday over what we have now

[whatanightmare1]

Seeing him sobbing like that at her funeral is just heartbreaking to me...it's just pitiful. He died 10 months later...

[Maciano Van der Laan]

Indeed. Nixon was a brave man and a great leader.

Americans have a weird sort of critcism towards their own nation. They also have an overdone sort of patriotism, American exceptionalism, which is equally weird, but, at least, more healthy.

It's still the freest, prosperous nation humankind ever fathered.