 When Nixon returns from China and goes to the press area aboard Air  Force One, the reporter in the front row on the left side can be  seen knocking his head on the overhead compartment. This was the  first of three takes of this shot. After Oliver Stone (I) (qv)  noticed on playback that Jim (the reporter) had bumped his head,  Stone called for another take, which was followed by a third, "just  to make sure". Ironically, the first take, with Jim the reporters  head bump, is the one that made it into the final film.