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A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: He was a man sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man. I love that line.

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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