‘Frost/Nixon’ director Howard voted for Nixon
He supported Obama in 2008, but in 1972, voted Republican
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updated 10:12 p.m. ET Dec. 4, 2008
LOS ANGELES - For all the disclosures former President Richard Nixon makes in "Frost/Nixon," director Ron Howard has one of his own.
Howard says he voted for Nixon in 1972.
"Yeah I did," Howard said at a discussion following a Hollywood screening late last month. "You see now, that was a long time ago."
Five years later, Nixon granted English journalist David Frost the famous four-part interviews, upon which the film is based.
Howard supported Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 election with a viral video in which he said, among other things, that he'd voted for both parties in the past.
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