Nixon's Complicated Relationship With Television: Ep. 6 Of Harry Shearer's 'Nixon's The One'

'Nixon's The One,' Harry Shearer's new web miniseries and "one of TV's most fascinating, frightening, and darkly comic experiments" (Boston Globe) debuts its final episode, "TV," today on YouTube. Watch and embed the link here:

Read a review of 'Nixon's The One' in the Boston Globe here.

From the 1952 Checkers speech that redeemed his political career to his defeat at the hands of John F. Kennedy in the first ever televised presidential debate in 1960 and beyond, Richard Nixon always had a complicated relationship with the tube. In "TV", Nixon agonizes over the influence of Jews on the television networks and prepares to resign amidst the biggest scandal in presidential history.

For 'Nixon's The One,' Shearer, alongside Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, combed through thousands of hours of Nixon's secret White House tapes. These re-enactments are pulled verbatim from the tapes, giving untold insight into the awkwardly intimate machinations of the Nixon Administration. "It's like you're in the Oval Office with him," says Shearer, "And you can't get out."

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