Watch Harry Shearer’s Faithful Recreation of Nixon’s Resignation — openculture.com

What role do these gifted performers have in common? Langella and Sir Anthony resurrected the 37th president within the framework of carefully crafted screenplays. Shearer’s approach is just as actorly, but his material isn’t exactly scripted. Instead, he and Nixon scholar Stanley Kutler pieced it together from unofficial banter on the 3,700 hours of audiotape Nixon secretly recorded while in office, supplementing with notes by those who were there.

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