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Eliquis, the number one cardiologist-prescribed blood thinner. ask your doctor if eliquis is whats next for you. august 1968. anna chennault touches down in saigon, south vietnams wartime capital. mrs. chennault feared that south vietnam would be the next domino to fall to the communists unless america held the line against communist north vietnam. now anna had come to join the struggle as richard nixons secret agent. >> i went with her on one of her trips to saigon. we stayed at the hotel car...

Carry on our action. >> i dont believe she acknowledged in any way to herself the military situation that existed. a lot of people didnt recognize it. >> by august of 1968, americas war in vietnam had already killed yet another 11,700 americans. that year alone. for the vietnamese, those numbers were even more grim. at least 116,000 dead in just seven months. >> a standard day, youd go into a village and start searching it, throwing stuff around inside of somebodys house and worse. you dont win ...

>> ive seen hundreds of pictures of her. the only woman in the picture. a dozen men and theres anna chennault standing in the middle. >> whats going on in vietnam? >> i just returned from the far east and southeast asia two weeks ago -- >> a globe trotting journalist, the widow of a war hero revered from burma to beijing. and by 1968, shes an executive for a global freight airline. anna had access. >> but she always operated from behind the scenes because she was a back channel operator. >> all ...

>> they are contacting a foreign power in the middle of a war, and they ougtt be doing this. this is treason. >> its november 3rd, just two days before the 1968 presidential election. >> mr. president, im getting him right on. >> mr. president? >> yes? >> this is dick nixon. >> yes, dick? >> in a call secretly recorded by the white house, president lyndon johnson draws a line in the sand for his old adversary richard nixon, the republican candidate for president. >> lyndon johnson is desperate b...

During dinner, and they would see the carnage of vietnam. >> all hell has broken loose. >> 1968 was lbjs fifth year as commander in chief. it was the single deadliest year of the war. already more than 19,000 americans had died in vietnam. more than 170,000 vietnamese had died from the north and the south. >> i think there was a momentum behind that war. so many people had died in it that its hard for anybody to say, ah, lets stop it. johnson once said, you know, i dont want to be the president ...

Headquarters. lets break it down. john mitchell. nixons 1968 campaign manager. that name may ring a bell. mitchell will go on to becomes nixons attorney general and one of the coconspirators sentenced to prison for the crimes of watergate. also, bui dem. south vietnams ambassador to the united states, saigons man in washington. and then theres richard nixon. by 1968, the perennial republican presidential wannabe had lost his last two elections and he knew that this was his last shot. >> in 1968 ...

♪ today u.s. bomber pilots reported destroying an important railroad bridge, cutting one of two rail lines through china. >> the north vietnamese say american planes bombed a dike on the outskirts of hanoi and other populated areas. >> the hanoi government claimed the targets were not just military installations. hospitals, schools, factories, and storehouses were damaged. >> the president pledged in 1968 a plan to end the war. now were moving into the year of his re-election, with the war e...

Baneful foes of republican government. british intelligence flooded u.s. newspapers with fake stories. their goal was to defeat politicians who didnt want the u.s. to get pulled into world war ii. meanwhile, nazi officials also funneled propaganda to american newspapers in hopes of stopping fdrs re-election. obviously, they failed. ♪ >> ahead of the 1968 election, richard nixon was running against then-vice president hubert humphrey. at the time the johnson administration was trying to make a ...

I dont want to go back smoking? >> reporter: shes not going down without a fight, refusing to liquidate her banned inventory. >> we have a hundred years of experience to know that prohibition does not work. what it does, it takes a product that was legal and regulated and makes it illegal and unregulated which means people day. renowned actress diahann carroll has died. >> carroll is best known for her role in the 1968 sitcom "julia" playing a black professional, a nurse, a single mother. it b...

Actual homeless can be much higher particularly for those unsheltered who sleep on the streets who are most vulnerable to this kind of violence. fred. >> thats terribly troubling. thanks. a florida woman is behind bars after allegedly making two dozen pipe bombs with the intention of using them the hurt people. her parents alerted police after they found pipe-making ma materials including knives. they also discovered dvds and books about mass killing, terrorism, bomb making. the 27-year-old is...