from thy brother. Something good must come of this" and, later, and perhaps even more significantly, "Ye art stronger than Harold, stronger than Arthur. God hath chosen thee to survive." From this, we see the great pressure that Nixon felt to succeed and also how he developed his narcissistic sense of uniqueness. The person who he depended on and respected most in the world, who he considered a saint on Earth, told him that God chose him and that great things were expected from him. This pressure fits Lasswell's theory of the "Injured Self", because Hannah Nixon saw her child as an instrument to pull the Nixon family out of poverty and failure. These expectations haunt him throughout his political career. Once in an argument with his wife, Pat, during the midst of the Watergate scandal, Nixon says, "I have to see this through. Mother would have expected no less of me." This is after his mother has been dead for years. Even at the very end of the movie, as Nixon is breaking down and coming to the realization that he must resign, Stone creates a ghostly image of Hannah Nixon in the White House looking disapprovingly at Richard, as if to suggest that the knowledge that he let his mother down with his dishonesty
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