Secret honor

This one-man show is a mythical portrait of former President Richard Nixon. The action takes place in Nixon's private office shortly after his resignation, and follows the ex-president as he records memoirs for his autobiography. Recalling his political actions, Nixon exhibits rage, self-pity, paranoia and self-justification. After a lifetime of repression, he reveals his secrets including the true motives behind the Watergate scandal. (Does not circulate)

Richard Nixon is restlessly pacing in the study at his New Jersey home, in the late 1970s. Armed with a loaded revolver, a bottle of Scotch whisky and a running tape recorder, he spends the next 90 minutes recalling, with rage, suspicion, sadness and disappointment, his controversial life and career in a long monologue. Nixon's monologue often veers into tangents, often concerning his family, people who made him powerful or the people who took him out of power. In the film, he denies the relevance of Watergate and claims that he never committed a crime.