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This was the second film for which Anthony Hopkins received an Academy Award nomination for playing a United States President, having previously been nominated in 1995 for playing Richard Nixon in Nixon.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun appears in the film as Justice Joseph Story.
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