Dick (1999) with Rivers Gambrell

Something is afoot at the Watergate Comp– wait do you hear Bobby Sherman and giggling? In what is sure to be the first of many, Flashback covers its first Nixon movie with 1999's Dick, Andrew Fleming's Watergate scandal comedy which asks "what if two teenage girls were at the heart of the biggest scandal of the American presidency?" Presidential historian and Rothermere American Institute Research Fellow Rivers Gambrell joins to discuss this riotous but forgotten send-up of Watergate, Nixon, Woodard and Bernstein and 70s teen culture. We talk Watergate, Nixon's public persona, the power of teenage girls, needle drops, the comedy we can find from the unknowns of history, and more!

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