As played by Anthony LaPaglia, Nixon is physically awkward and prone to third-person self-reference (more a Bob Dole tic, actually), but he is also soft-spoken and no more than ordinarily profane.

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"Being guilt prone does not mean that a person is perpetually feeling guilty for things that they haven't done, " she says.

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But this person is sharp, and not usually prone to verbal linkbait, so I dug deeper.

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