04/05/1970 AD watched
According to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's book The Final Days, this was Richard Nixon's favorite film. Nixon first viewed Patton with his family at a private screening in the White House Family Theater.
Nixon became obsessed with the film, repeatedly watching it with Henry Kissinger over the next month. He screened it several times at the White House and during a cruise on the presidential yacht USS Sequoia in the Potomac River.
Kissinger sarcastically wrote of Nixon's insistence that he see the film on the cruise: "It was the second time he had so honored me. Inspiring as the film no doubt was, I managed to escape for an hour in the middle of it to prepare for the next day’s NSC meeting."
Before the 1972 Nixon visit to China, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai watched this film in preparation for his meeting with Nixon.
Lattitude: 38.9072° N
Longitude: 77.0369° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
Subjects Who or What watched?
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Richard Nixon (Richard Milhous Nixon) 37th President of the Un...
Objects To Whom or What was watched?
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Patton (film) American epic biographic...
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