The movie left out a very relevant fact: Frank Fitzsimmons, who was acting Teamsters president while Hoffa was in prison for jury tampering, made a deal with Nixon: the President would commute Hoffa's seven year sentence with the proviso that Hoffa had to stay away from union politics until 1980, otherwise he'd go back to prison. Hoffa, desperate to get out, agreed.

He then was in demand for media interviews, where he talked up prison reform, but always put in bad words for Fitz and Fitz's Mob ties. He also made noises about wanting to recapture the Teamsters' presidency. Unlike the hard-driving, autocratic, workaholic Hoffa, Fitzsimmons was fat, lazy and was more interested in playing golf than tending to union business. But, Teamsters Local officers liked him because he gave them far more leeway than the hyper-controlling Hoffa. And, while Hoffa played ball with the Mob, he was courageous and fearlessly independent, while Fitz was compliant with them and paid little attention to the gigantic Central States Pension Fund, which was the Mob's loan bank.

Neither Fitz nor the Mob wanted Hoffa back in charge; and his bad-mouthing Fitz' Mob ties was a direct threat to them. Even Chuckie, who was a virtual son to Hoffa, said he was "suicidal." RIP Jimmy.