Oliver Stone's NIXON

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Question that I can’t figure out the answer to.

In the movie, after Bobby Kennedy is shot, Nixon’s path to the White House is almost assured.

Nixon is talking to one of his aids, and makes a remark about riding 4 bodies into the white house.

The Aid (played by james woods… I believe he was Haldermann or Erlichmann) said “you mean two bodies”. Nixon says “no, four.”

I think it is safe to assume the two bodies were JFK and RFK.

but who would the other two be?

I am guessing one would be MLK, but that leaves one more. And I don’t even know if NLK is correct, leaving two more deaths to account for that helped Nixon be elected.

Anyone know who the other two bodies Nixon was referring to? (And if the Kennedy’s weren’t the first two, who was Nixon referring to for all 4 bodies?)

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An almost identical thread from 2009: Stone's "Nixon" Movie: Four Bodies? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board

But, to save you time, the four bodies were JFK, RFK, and Nixon’s two brothers, whose deaths he felt guilty/responsible for.

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Thank you. I knew his brothers died, but I didn’t make that connection for that moment in the movie.