'Checkers' Brings Back the Nixons

Douglas McGrath’s new play “Checkers” offers a reasonably compelling portrait of the relationship between Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat. However, it slights the political context of its times far too much and overreaches in its intimations of what might have driven the 37th president of the United States to his epic self-destruction. McGrath opens in 1966 Manhattan, where Nixon, having left politi…

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