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Self is a real person portrayed by Richard Nixon in the TV series American Experience (based on a true story).
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Nixon: Part I (season 3), they were 77 years old.
They appear in 5 episodes out of a total of 387 aired so far
Self is also portrayed by Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Fontaine, Judy Garland, Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles, Charles Chaplin, Martin Scorsese and Nancy Allen.

Self

by Richard Nixon

character

Episodes5

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    Nixon: Part I
    episode S3.E2 october 1990
    Richard M. Nixon was one of American history's most powerful figures. Recalling events etched in U.S. memory, this three-hour program explores a fateful mix of strength and weakness that made him president, and then brought him down. Events revealing Nixon's distinctive signature in American politics, from a meteoric rise to Congress to the presidency and the morass of Watergate, unfold in three parts: The Quest, Triumph, and The Fall. This is the first of three parts.
  • 7.3
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    Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    episode S17.E12 may 2005
    A documentary on the curious American domestic terrorist group, infamous for the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst.
  • 8.2
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    My Lai
    episode S22.E6 april 2010
    American Experience investigates the My Lai massacre an atrocity during the Vietnam War that killed more than 300 unarmed civilians.
  • 8.2
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    Taken Hostage: Part One
    episode S34.E5 november 2022
    Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, through stories of those whose ordeal riveted the world.
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    The Movement and the 'Madman'
    episode S35.E4 march 2023
    Two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 cause President Richard Nixon to cancel his "madman" plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam.