"Dick" -- 1999, directed by Andrew Fleming.
Somehow it got 71% on Rotten Tomatoes.
"Betsy (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene (Michelle Williams) are two 15-year-old girls in 1976. When Betsy visits Arlene at the Watergate Motel, the two accidentally stumble into the middle of the infamous Watergate robbery. In order to keep them quiet, Nixon (Dan Hedaya) appoints them as honorary dog walkers. As they travel in and out of the White House, their seemingly innocent actions start a chain of events that may eventually lead to Nixon's resignation as president of the United States."
Vox (2017): "The best thing about Dick is its savvy take on how history repeats itself, and what we can learn from it. The film came out a quarter-century after Watergate and mere months after Bill Clinton’s impeachment. The teenagers who were probably Dick’s target audience when it came out, 25 years after Nixon’s resignation, wouldn’t remember Watergate at all. But the film’s lessons were relevant then, and they’re relevant now, too, more than 40 years after Watergate."
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