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This picture was made and first released in 1984 which was about a decade after the Watergate Scandal. Republican President Richard Nixon resigned at the Oval Office in the White House on the evening of 8th August 1974. This film premiered about one decade and one month and one week exactly after the resignation, at the Toronto International Film Festival, on 15th September 1984.
Filmed while Robert Altman was a professor at the University of Michigan. The crew consisted of mostly students of the University who were studying film. Time Out stated the the film was "made with a student crew at the University of Michigan".
The production shoot for this film went for just seven days.
Robert Altman made no secret of his hatred of Richard Nixon as president. Some critics were therefore quite surprised at the fairly even-handed and rather pitying tone of the film.
Actor Philip Baker Hall reprised his role as Richard Nixon which he had originated on stage at the Los Angeles Actors' Theatre in 1983.