"Our point of reference is he was a kind, gentle, soft-spoken teenager, " Ms. Page said.

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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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