“A political satire, a political document, a political survey, in short--an indefinable masterwork of social history, utilizing the vast arena of American government as a satirical target. Emile de Antonio, who has rapidly become the Lincoln Steffens of the American cinema, has created a thoroughly engrossing panorama of incidents, gleaned from newsreel and television
footage, describing the evolution and rise of Richard M. Nixon from childhood to the Presidency. In the past, Mr. De Antonio's documentaries were tinged with indignation and retrospective outrage--Point of Order, Rush to Judgment and In the Year of the Pig were all concerned with American indifference to demagoguery, political assassination and the Vietnam war, respectively. Now, in Millhouse: A White Comedy, he has submitted the film ‘in the tradition of the Marx Brothers,' and it is a sign of the times that merciless television and film cameras can make great comedians out of the most saturnine politicians.... Millhouse: A White Comedy is a sardonic reminiscence of the tragi-comedy of political success, a lengthy journey marched with odd remembrances--a pumpkinful of espionage or a dog named Checkers.” San Francisco Int'l. Film Festival '71