Dick (1999) In DICK, an historically-challenged comedy, high school students Betsy Jobs and Arlene Lorenzo wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They end up becoming the official walkers of his dog, Checkers, and secret advisors to Tricky Dick during the Watergate scandal. Forget what you learned in the history books and prepare to be enlightened on eighteen-and-a-half-minute tape gaps, slush funds, paper shredding and everything else you never knew about the third-rate burglary that turned into a first-rate scandal in the 1970s the last good White House scandal.