Coming out of the conventions in August ’68, Richard Nixon begins his campaign against Hubert Humphrey, his Democratic opponent, with what looks like an insurmountable lead. Running as the peace candidate, Nixon promises a quick end to a costly and increasingly unpopular war. The strategy works, until late October, when Humphrey finally breaks with LBJ and goes public with his own opposition to the war. Overnight, the race begins to tighten. This is Nixon's last shot. He lost to JFK in 1960, by less than two-tenths of a percent – one of the closest elections in U.S. history – and isn’t about to let it happen again. So, when word leaks, a week before the election, of a possible breakthrough in LBJ’s long-stalled Vietnam peace talks, Nixon sees it all slipping away, and moves to avoid that outcome, at whatever risk. His response is to sabotage the Paris Talks, through a mysterious secret intermediary known as the Dragon Lady. LBJ learns of Nixon’s efforts to blow up the talks, but can’t reveal his source – FBI wiretaps on the South Vietnamese Embassy. “Of all of Richard Nixon’s actions in a lifetime of politics,” biographer John Farrell will later say, “this was the most reprehensible.“
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S3 Ep 7 - Tangled Web
S3 Ep 6 - Off the Rails
S3 Ep 5 - Beginning of the End
S3 Ep 4 - Searchlight on the Lawn
S3 Ep 3 - Sideshow
S3 Ep 1 - October Surprise
Trailer - Welcome to Nixon at War
S2 Ep 7 - Post Script
S2 Ep 6 - The Engineer
S2 Ep 5 - Give Us the Ballot
S2 Ep 4 - Medicine Man
S2 Ep 3 - The Bully Pulpit
S2 Ep 2 - Mr. Poverty
S2 Ep 1 - The Great Unveiling
Trailer - Welcome to LBJ and the Great Society
Epilog: “I Shall Not Seek…”
S1 Ep 6 LBJ's War - The Shock of Tet
S1 Ep 5 LBJ's War - The Preacher and the President
S1 Ep 4 LBJ's War - Parting the Curtains
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