Tricky Dick

Raised by a family with modest means with a childhood beset by tragedy, Richard Nixon learns early to recognize opportunity and how to seize it. Nixon's years as a serious student give way to a promising political career.

Nixon loses one of the closest presidential elections in history to John F. Kennedy. Nixon runs for governor's seat in California. Nixon retreats from politics. Determined to shed his loser's image, he wages a calculated crusade for the presidency.

Richard Nixon enters office after navigating one of the greatest political comebacks of all time to find that his survival hinges on the promise to end the Vietnam War. The anti-war movement gains strength and the president suspects a conspiracy.

Shortly into Nixon's second term, the cover-up of the break-in at the DNC headquarters at the Watergate complex starts to fall apart. Yet Nixon decides to wage a battle in the press.