



"Movies and Richard Milhous Nixon can each tell us a lot about America. In this sui generis study—combining film analysis, social history, psychological observation, and political biography—Mark Feeney reminds us that Nixon and the movies can also tell us a lot about each other. It will take further decades fully to understand the subliminal life of RMN. Here's a great beginning."—Kevin Starr "In Nixon at the Movies, Mark Feeney has given us a thought-provoking and truly original book—a work filled with incisive insights into a fascinating figure."—Robert A. Caro

What Nixon Saw and

When He Saw It by Mark Feeney Appendix from Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief This list of Nixon screenings is primarily drawn from the President's Daily Diary, which was kept by the Secret Service throughout his presidency. During much of 1969, the diary was kept in a sketchier fashion than during 1970–73. In December 1973, the White House became increasingly anxious about leaks as Watergate worsened and directed the Secret Service to keep a less detailed record of the president's daily schedule. Citations that do not list a date, site, or both, are drawn from one of three sources: The Haldeman Diaries; a 1970 memorandum Rose Mary Woods prepared in response to a Newsweek query as to what films Nixon had seen while president; or, from the second half of December 1973 until August 1974, the personal logs kept by White House projectionist Paul Fisher. I am very grateful to Mr. Fischer for sharing that information, as well as to Irv Letofsky for putting me in touch with him. Key to screening sites: WH White House CD Camp David KB Key Biscayne SC San Clemente PS Walter Annenberg's Palm Springs estate GC Robert Abplanalp's Grand Cay home CB Caneel Bay Plantation MI Minot Island, Maine AI Thomas McCabe's residence on Assateague Island, Maryland

1969 Date Site The Shoes of the Fisherman 1/22 WH The Sound of Music 2/14 WH The Sand Pebbles

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CD Play Dirty 4/12 CD Doctor Zhivago 4/19 CD Where Eagles Dare 4/25 CD Camelot 5/17 KB A Man for All Seasons 5/23 CD Mayerling 5/29 KB Twisted Nerve 5/30 KB Bullitt 5/31 KB The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 6/4 SC Shalako 6/5 SC Support Your Local Sheriff 6/20 CD True Grit 6/28 WH The Bridge on the River Kwai 7/2 KB My Side of the Mountain 7/5 KB Sound of Anger 7/11 CD My Little Chickadee 7/17 CD West Side Story 7/18 CD The Odd Couple 7/26 CD Gigi 8/? SC The Happiest Millionaire 8/? SC Dead Run 8/? SC The Guns of Navarone 8/? SC The Longest Day 8/? SC The Dirty Dozen 8/13 CD Their Finest Hour 8/14 WH Born Free 9/19 CD How to Commit Marriage 10/11 CD Hard Contract 10/17 WH Roman Holiday 10/18 WH The Scalphunters 10/24 CD Oliver! 11/1 CD The Bridge at Remagen 11/6 CD The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming 11/15 CD If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium 11/22 CD Cat Ballou 11/27 KB The Great Bank Robbery 11/28 KB The Undefeated 11/29 KB The Pink Jungle 12/13 CD P.J. 12/14 CD Marooned 12/20 WH Hello, Dolly 12/26 WH Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 12/31 SC 1970 Date Site The Sea Gull 1/1 SC Sweet Charity 1/3 SC The Robe 1/4 PS Around the World in 80 Days 1/5 PS Those Were the Happy Times 1/6 SC The Sterile Cuckoo 1/7 CD Civilisation 1/? WH Paint Your Wagon 1/24 CD Cactus Flower 1/31 CD The Secret of Santa Vittoria 2/7 CD No Time for Sergeants 2/12 KB Hawaii 2/13 KB Anne of the Thousand Days 2/? CD Quo Vadis 3/6 KB To Catch a Thief 3/13 CD Paper Lion 3/26 KB Funny Girl 3/28 KB The Stalking Moon 3/29 KB Hamlet 4/3 CD Patton 4/4 WH The Caine Mutiny 4/6 WH My Fair Lady 4/14 CD The Cincinnati Kid 4/24 CD Patton 4/25 WH The Last Hurrah 5/1 CD The Blue Max 5/2 CD Sunrise at Campobello 5/6 WH Topkapi 5/12 WH A Big Hand for the Little Lady 5/13 WH Oklahoma! 5/14 KB Before Winter Comes 5/15 KB Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 5/17 KB Ice Station Zebra 5/22 CD The Cardinal 5/23 CD The Train 5/29 WH How the West Was Won 5/30 KB Smith 6/6 CD Patton 6/12 KB The Battle of Britain 6/13 KB War and Peace 6/19 CD The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 6/21 CD The Egg and I 6/25 SC Flower Drum Song 6/26 SC Auntie Mame 7/1 SC Father Goose 7/3 SC The Professionals 7/5 SC Our Man in Havana 7/? CD The Out-of-Towners 7/25 SC Bell, Book and Candle 7/26 SC Chisum 7/31 SC Swiss Family Robinson 8/2 SC Cromwell 8/7 CD The Cross and the Switchblade 8/8 CD The Sicilian Clan 8/15 CD Dial M for Murder 8/22 SC Born Yesterday 8/23 SC Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here 8/24 SC Mister Roberts 8/25 SC The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 8/28 SC Wilson 8/30 SC Chisum 8/31 SC The Roaring Twenties 9/4 SC The Big Country 9/5 SC On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 9/11 CD McCloud 9/12 CD Operation Cross Eagles 9/? CD The Chairman 9/? WH A Place in History 9/? WH The Unsinkable Molly Brown 9/? WH Giant 10/8 KB The Country Girl 10/9 KB Mildred Pierce 10/10 KB The Americanization of Emily 11/2 SC Khartoum 11/6 KB The African Queen 11/7 KB Walk, Don't Run 11/9 GC Goodbye, Mr. Chips 11/13 WH How Do I Love Thee? 11/14 CD Richard III 11/20 CD Tora! Tora! Tora! 11/26 WH It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 11/27 WH The Greatest Show on Earth 11/28 CD Good Sam 12/5 CD Stagecoach 12/19 WH Love Story 12/24 WH You Can't Take It with You 12/25 WH Pursuit of the Graf Spee 12/26 CD 1971 Date Site Anatomy of a Murder 1/1 CD Barabbas 1/2 CD Citizen Kane 1/5 WH All About Eve 1/7 SC Mississippi 1/8 SC Gigi 1/9 SC Torn Curtain 1/11 SC Doctor Zhivago 1/15 CD Sitting Pretty 1/16 CD Song of Norway 1/25 WH Spartacus (Trumbo) 1/29 CB High Society 1/30 CB The Iron Petticoat 1/31 CB Dr. Day Revisited and A Man Named Lombardi 2/6 CD Four W. C. Fields shorts 2/11 KB The Great Chase 2/12 GC Gone with the Wind 2/13–14 KB Friendly Persuasion 2/20 CD Around the World in 80 Days 2/27 CD Lawrence of Arabia 3/3 CD Lawrence of Arabia, part 2 3/6 CD In Harm's Way 3/12 KB The Sundowners 3/13 KB The Flight of the Phoenix 3/14 GC Arabesque 3/27 SC A Man Could Get Killed 3/29 SC Sahara 4/2 SC The List of Adrian Messenger 4/3 SC Rio Lobo 4/4 SC Ryan's Daughter 4/10 CD A New Leaf 4/71 WH O'Hara, U.S. Treasury 4/71 CD Captain Horatio Hornblower 4/30 SC Houseboat 5/1 SC The High Commissioner 5/2 SC The Egyptian 5/14 KB Ship of Fools 5/16 KB The Lady from Shanghai 5/21 WH Take the Money and Run 5/22 KB Red Sky at Morning 5/23 KB Red Ball Express 5/24 KB Waterloo 5/29 CD Plaza Suite 5/30 CD Rose Marie 6/5 CD The Cheyenne Social Club 6/6 CD Broken Lance 6/18 KB Donovan's Reef 6/19 KB Zeppelin 6/25 CD Shane 6/26 CD Proudly They Came and Valdez Is Coming 7/4 CD All the Brothers Were Valiant 7/7 SC Breakfast at Tiffany's 7/8 SC The Apartment 7/9 SC The Quiet Man 7/11 SC Diamond Head 7/13 SC They Might Be Giants 7/14 SC Raid on Rommel 7/16 SC Damn Yankees 7/17 SC The Last Valley 7/24 CD That Touch of Mink 7/25 CD The Barbarian and the Geisha 7/31 CD A Fistful of Dollars 8/6 MI The Conqueror 8/7 MI Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison 8/9 SC The Virginian 8/17 SC The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 8/21 SC The Bridges at Toko-Ri 8/22 SC El Cid 8/23 SC The Fortune Cookie 8/24 SC The Ipcress File 8/27 SC Shanghai Express 8/29 SC Send Me No Flowers 8/30 SC The Alamo 9/5 CD Big Jake 9/11 CD Hud 9/17 CD Cleopatra 9/18–19 CD The Sheepman 9/20 WH Wild Rovers 9/24 WH The Grass Is Greener 10/1 KB To Kill a Mockingbird 10/3 KB The Red Tent 10/9 CD The Bravados 10/10 WH Beau James 10/15 CD Klute 10/24 CD Under the Yum-Yum Tree 11/5 KB Wait Until Dark 11/7 KB San Francisco 11/12 CD The Bad and the Beautiful 11/13 CD Suspicion 11/20 CD Gaslight 11/25 SC Cannon for Cordoba 12/3 KB The Badlanders 12/16 KB The Last Run 12/17 KB The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 12/19 WH The Night Visitor 12/22 CD Brian's Song 12/23 CD Nicholas and Alexandra 12/25 WH Love in the Afternoon 12/29 KB The Lonely Profession 12/30 KB 1972 Date Site The Brothers Karamazov 1/7 SC Hotel 1/13 CD Papa's Delicate Condition 1/14 CD Lawman 1/15 CD The Brothers Karamazov 1/29 CD Romance of a Horsethief 2/4 KB The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2/11–12 GC Kotch 3/1 WH Nine Hours to Rama 3/2 KB Dr. No 3/3 KB Dirty Harry 3/10 CD The Last Picture Show 3/11 CD The Music Lovers 3/17 WH Paris When It Sizzles 3/18 WH The Grapes of Wrath 3/24 CD The French Connection 3/25 CD Lord Jim 4/1 CD Duel in the Sun 4/2 CD Bachelor in Paradise 4/6 KB Boomerang 4/7 KB The Godfather 4/21 CD There Was a Crooked Man 4/22 CD Diamonds Are Forever 4/27 KB Pendulum 4/29 KB Critic's Choice 5/5 CD Kidnapped 5/6 CD Funeral in Berlin 5/7 CD Goldfinger 5/11 CD The Carpetbaggers 5/12 CD Good Neighbor Sam 5/13 CD From Russia with Love 5/18 CD Move Over, Darling 5/19 WH The Prince and the Showgirl 6/2 KB Elmer Gantry 6/3 KB The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 6/4 KB Take Her, She's Mine 6/8 CD The Skin Game 6/16 GC The Notorious Landlady 6/17 GC When Eight Bells Toll 6/18 KB The Cardinal 6/21 WH Hang 'Em High 6/23 CD The Hot Rock 6/24 CD Harlow 7/1 SC The V.I.P.s 7/3 SC Reap the Wild Wind 7/4 SC Coogan's Bluff 7/5 SC Irma La Douce 7/9 SC Gambit 7/11 SC Two documentaries (on Pat's visit to Africa and the Washington Redskins) 7/12 SC Skyjacked 7/19 WH She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 7/22 CD Fort Apache 7/24 WH Lady Liberty 7/29 CD The Mouse that Roared 7/30 CD Frenzy 8/4 AI The War between Men and Women 8/5 AI Bend of the River 8/11 CD Joe Kidd 8/12 CD Kelly's Heroes 9/3 SC Crusade in Europe 9/6 WH Cabaret 9/8 CD The Groundstar Conspiracy 9/9 CD The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid 9/16 CD The Man 9/19 CD Yankee Doodle Dandy 9/23 CD Their Finest Hour 9/24 CD Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 9/26 CD War and Peace 9/30 CD Fiddler on the Roof 10/1 CD Major Dundee 10/5 WH The King and I 10/7 CD South Pacific 10/14 CD Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 10/20 CD The Sons of Katie Elder 10/24 WH Midnight Lace 10/? CD Cancel My Reservation 10/29 CD Crusade in Europe 10/31 WH Civilisation 11/5 SC Victory at Sea 11/8 KB The Great Escape 11/9 KB Boys' Night Out 11/10 KB Fuzz 11/12 CD John Paul Jones 11/16 CD Man with a Million 11/19 CD Young Winston 11/22 CD The Emigrants 11/23 CD The Carey Treatment 11/26 CD Pancho Villa 11/27 CD Rio Bravo 11/28 CD The Heroes of Telemark 12/3 KB What the Peeper Saw 12/7 CD The Candidate 12/8 CD Sounder 12/9 CD The Poseidon Adventure 12/12 WH The Hanging Tree 12/17 WH Charade 12/20 KB The Inn of the Sixth Happiness 12/21 KB The Lady Eve 12/22 KB Butterfield 8 12/24 KB The Big Clock 12/28 CD The General Died at Dawn 12/29 CD 1973 Date Site Three Coins in the Fountain 1/6 CD Ride the High Country 1/7 WH The Maltese Falcon 1/9 WH Mary, Queen of Scots 1/12 KB The More the Merrier 1/26 KB Tom Jones 1/27 KB This Gun for Hire 1/28 KB The Accused 2/3 CD So Big 2/4 CD A Double Life 2/8 SC On the Waterfront 2/9 SC The Last Voyage 2/10 SC Undercurrent 2/11 SC The Man Who Knew Too Much 2/13 SC Some Like It Hot 2/16 KB Keeper of the Flame 2/17 KB Boom Town 2/18 KB Vertigo 2/23 CD The Doctor Takes a Wife 2/24 CD Viva Zapata! 3/4 CD Picnic 3/9 CD Owen Marshall 3/10 CD To the Ends of the Earth 3/11 WH Texas 3/15 WH Sleuth 3/18 CD Frenchman's Creek 3/24 KB Anne of the Thousand Days 3/25 KB The Shepherd of the Hills 3/26 KB Three Little Words 3/30 SC Two Rode Together 4/1 SC Gideon of Scotland Yard 4/3 SC Meet Me in St. Louis 4/4 SC Kind Hearts and Coronets 4/5 SC Forever and a Day 4/7 SC Some Came Running 4/20 KB The Seven Year Itch 4/21 KB The Quiet Man 4/23 GC Ocean's 11 5/3 KB What Price Glory 5/4 KB Inherit the Wind 5/6 KB Notorious 5/10 WH The Long Voyage Home 5/11 CD Hammersmith Is Out 5/12 CD The War Wagon 5/13 CD The Searchers 5/17 WH A Hole in the Head 5/19 CD High Plains Drifter 5/20 CD The Wreck of the Mary Deare 5/22 WH Tea and Sympathy 5/23 CD Indiscreet 5/25 KB Proud Rebel 5/26 KB Twelve O'Clock High 5/27 GC Night People 6/2 CD Separate Tables 6/8 KB A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 6/9 KB Stage Fright 6/15 KB The Lady Killers 6/16 KB A Letter to Three Wives 6/25 SC Love Me or Leave Me 6/26 SC Never Let Me Go 6/27 SC Pat and Mike 6/28 SC The Gazebo 6/29 SC The Citadel 6/30 SC Daisy Kenyon 7/1 SC The Railway Children 7/2 SC North to Alaska 7/4 SC Alexander the Great 7/5 SC Tom Sawyer 7/6 SC His Majesty O'Keefe 7/7 SC The Far Country 7/8 SC Rebel without a Cause 7/? SC Detective Story 7/? CD The Iron Duke 7/21 CD Life with Father 7/22 CD The Day of the Jackal 7/23 CD Centennial Summer 7/28 CD Vera Cruz 7/29 CD A Touch of Class 8/3 CD The Sky Above, the Mud Below 8/4 CD Man on a String 8/5 CD Run for Cover 8/8 CD The Nelson Affair 8/9 CD The Light that Failed 8/17 KB You Gotta Stay Happy 8/18 KB Lawrence of Arabia 8/23–24 SC Please Don't Eat the Daisies 8/25 SC Ivanhoe 8/26 SC Kentucky 8/27 SC On the Town 8/28 SC Dark Victory 8/29 SC All This and Heaven Too 8/30 SC The Postman Always Rings Twice 9/1 SC The Blue Dahlia 9/2 SC David and Bathsheba 9/8 CD I'd Climb the Highest Mountain 9/9 CD Lady Ice 9/14 CD Paper Moon 9/15 CD A King's Story 9/16 CD Scorpio 9/22 CD Key Largo 9/23 CD Bang the Drum Slowly 9/29 CD Lonely Are the Brave 9/30 CD Play Misty for Me 10/4 KB Khartoum 10/6 KB Zulu 10/13 CD Suez 10/16 CD The Sting 10/19 WH The Searching Wind 10/20 WH The World in His Arms 10/23 CD Fail-Safe 10/27 CD Hitler: The Last Ten Days 10/29 CD Live and Let Die 10/31 WH The Master Touch 11/3 KB Heaven Can Wait 11/? KB The Way We Were 11/9 CD The Long Gray Line 11/10 CD The Snows of Kilimanjaro 11/22 CD My Darling Clementine 11/23 CD A Foreign Affair 11/24 CD The Last of Sheila 12/1 WH A Man for All Seasons 12/2 CD Western Union 12/7 WH From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 12/8 WH The Flim-Flam Man 12/? WH Travels with My Aunt 12/? WH Drums Along the Mohawk 12/? CD Anastasia 12/? SC The House of Rothschild 12/? SC Jane Eyre 12/? SC 1974 Date Site Garden of Evil Jan. SC Buffalo Bill ↓ SC Cahill: United States Marshal SC Passage to Marseilles SC Henry VIII and His Six Wives SC They Came to Cordura SC The Whole Town's Talking PS An Affair to Remember WH American Graffiti WH Executive Action CD The Long Goodbye CD The Hospital CD Charley Varrick Feb. CD The New Land ↓ CD Serpico CD The Clouded Yellow KB A Kiss Before Dying KB Harry in Your Pocket KB The Sting KB The Collector WH England Made Me WH Mame WH The Day of the Dolphin WH Pony Express WH Destination Gobi WH The Omega Man WH Butterflies Are Free WH Cheyenne Autumn KB Von Ryan's Express Mar. KB Friendly Persuasion ↓ WH A Place in History CD The Way We Were CD Sunset Boulevard CD Magnum Force CD Becket Apr. CD The Great Gatsby ↓ CD Mr. Deeds Goes to Town CD Call of the Wild KB What's Up, Doc? KB The Solid Gold Cadillac KB The Sugarland Express KB The Long, Hot Summer May KB The Paper Chase ↓ KB Rio Conchos KB The Seven-Ups KB On the Beach WH Shenandoah WH The Wrong Box WH Zandy's Bride June WH Holiday ↓ CD Divorce Italian Style CD Kitty CD The Big Sleep CD The Big Heat July KB Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round ↓ KB McQ KB By the Light of the Silvery Moon SC Chad Hanna SC Come Next Spring SC Man on a Swing SC Man without a Star SC Double Indemnity SC Two for the Seesaw SC The Train Robbers SC It's a Wonderful Life SC Around the World in 80 Days SC