Just once I'd like to see a good dramatization of Nixon. Nixon was terrorized by his father, who beat him and abused him as a child. The anxiety consumed Nixon. It became impossible for him to ever rest comfortably under any authority for the rest of his life. He felt he *had to* maneuver constantly just to escape further abuse. Thus the most terrifying moment of his life was the Checkers Speech, when he was rejected by his father AND nearly rejected by the leader of the free world.