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While watching a televised Giants game, indulging his overweening passion for football, he collapses from alcoholic exhaustion.
Under its slapstick shenanigans, this modest movie offers a convincing vision of Nixon White House operations as a sordid buffoon show undone by a couple of painfully earnest innocents: It's nature's revenge on the overweening.
They represented fundamental splits--between supporters of constitutional democracy and its opponents, between friends and enemies of human rights, between people who believe in limited government and those who want an overweening state.
Nixon's statesmanlike response was to fund a secret investigative team to bedevil Ellsberg and anyone else whom Nixon, in his overweening paranoia and narcissism, deemed a risk to "national security."
The revolution of 1776, for instance, was fueled in part by the colonists' resentment of the overweening powers of royal judges.