Richard Nixon
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Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States. In reality he was voted to two terms in office, but resigned before finishing his second term due to the Watergate scandal.
In the 1985A timeline, Nixon was seeking re-election to a fifth term in 1983, with help from Biff Tannen, who was rich and powerful. Nixon had apparently been re-elected in 1976 and 1980, apparently on promises to end the war in Southeast Asia. For his 1984 campaign, he vowed that he would end the Vietnam War by 1985. Doc and Marty don't stay long enough in 1985A to find out whether Nixon had won a fifth term, or whether the war had ended.
[edit] Behind the scenes
- Nixon attended Whittier High School and graduated in the class of 1930. Whittier High was used more than fifty years later as the filming location for Hill Valley High School.
- Besides portraying Clara Clayton Brown, the mother of Jules and Verne, actress Mary Steenburgen played the role of Richard Nixon's devout Quaker mother, Hannah, in Oliver Stone's 1995 film Nixon.
[edit] Appearances
- Back to the Future Part II (1985A Newspaper)
