"It's an actor's dream to play something like this. I consider this my masterwork...Playing Nixon gave me tremendous recognition. I'd long been known in the business, but it pulled everything together. Finally people could put the name Lane Smith with my face." a proposito del film per la tv del 1989 The Final Days.

(Lane Smith, all'anagrafe Walter Lane Smith III, attore; Memphis, 29 aprile 1936 – Northridge, 13 giugno 2005)