 In a rare public criticism of her husbands company (who released  the film and in which she was a major stockholder),  Lillian Disney (qv), widow of Walt Disney (qv), released a  statement soon after the film opened expressing her extreme  displeasure with this movie and the fact that The Walt Disney  Company was involved in its release. Mrs. Disney felt that the film  was mean spirited and unfairly biased; she also extended a personal  apology on behalf of the Disney Family to the Nixon Family (both  families were good friends and often socialized together, so the  Disneys knew the Nixons personally. Mrs. Disney felt that President  Nixons character faults were grossly exaggerated in the film and  that the many redeeming qualities of President Nixon and his family  were virtually ignored).