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Trivia: Nixon's actual voice was used from White House tapes for the scenes where he is on the phone in the Oval Office.

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Trivia: The pages on the floor of Tom Hanks' house were Daniel Ellsberg's original documents from the Pentagon papers.

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Trivia: Tom Hanks collects vintage typewriters, and at the end of filming he took home the Corona Zephyr shown in the newsroom.

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Mistakes

Factual error: There is a phone on the night stand in the daughter's room. The phone is a Princess phone and has modular cords. This movie takes place 3 years before modular plugs were invented.

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Quotes

Daniel Ellsberg: Wouldn't you go to prison to stop this war?
Ben Bagdikian: Theoretically, sure.

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