The White House has requested a screener for the Steven Spielberg film The Post. The White House has had small movie theater on its grounds since 1942, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president, and since that time, various presidents have held screenings of important movies. Richard Nixon was reported to have watched Patton over and over again during his White House years. The first movie Jimmy Carter showed in the White House was All the President’s Men, which dramatized Nixon’s downfall. Ronald Reagan, a former movie star, favored westerns, while Barack Obama held major events related to specific movies regularly, from Selma to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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