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Headquarters. john mitchell. hed go on to be his attorney general and one of the co-conspirators sentenced to prison for the crimes of watergate. and the saigons man in washington. buidiem. and richard nixon. by 1968 the presidential wannabe lost his last two elections. >> by then he wanted it so bad he was willing to do anything. >> this is twiced a gooz as in 1960 and the result is going to be twice as good as in 1960. >> july 12th. we have three men in a hotel room. a veteran politician plott...

Scales at a time when america seemed to be coming apart at the seems. im not talking about 2016. no, this time the year was 1968. >> got us in this war and they are afraid to get us out. >> richard nixon is in the effort to sabotage peace. >> what we do or fail to do can determine the peace and freedom for the balance of this century. >> 10s of thousands of americans and vietnamese died. thats what it was at stake. >> it was treason by any standard? >> woman could change history. >> lbj knew the...

It is november 3rd, just two days before the 1968 presidential election. >> mr. president im getting a write on. >> mr. president. >> yes. >> 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 anniversary richard nixon, the republican candidate for president. >> lyndon johnson is desperate before his term runs out to get the north vietnamese and the south vooemz at the peace tabie table. >> we all want them t...

War. >> you can see the toll the war is having on lbj. physically, psychologically. >> the president was under fire from all sides. politicians as well as protesters. >> when the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four years in a war against a fourth rate military power in vietnam with no end in sight, then i say it is time for new leadership in the united states of america. >> and yes, at the apex of the war the u.s. was holding a presidential election. so now lets back up. to m...

[ ding ] show me fish on youtube. say it and see it with the x1voice remote. from netflix, prime video,youtube and even movie tickets. just say get "dragon tickets". in 1968, americas war in vietnam drove the news and the presidential election. republican front runner richard nixon sees every opportunity to fuel voters anxiety over the course of the war. >> never has so much military economic and diplomatic power been used so in effectfully as in vietnam. >> this time vote like your whole worl...

>> i dont believe she acknowledged in any way to herself the military situation that existed. a lot of people didnt recognize it. by. >> by august of 1968 americas what nor vietnam had already killed yet another 11,700 americans that year alone. for the vietnamese those number were even more grim. at least 116,000 dead in just seven months. >> a standard day you would go into a village and you would start searching it. throwing stuff around inside of somebodys house. and worse. you dont win hear...

Ago. >> a globe trotting journalist. a widow of a war hero from ber ma to beijing. and 1968 a executive for a global freight airline. anna has access. >> but she always operated from behind the scenes because she was a back channel operator. >> whos going to have the power to keep peace? >> and now artillery is being called in, as you can hear, very close. >> war and peace in vietnam. in 1968 that was the issue. how to end a war that had turned malignant. >> vietnam was the war that we saw in ou...

Had dysfunctional childhoods. and some mental problems. and it raises questions, you know. if -- if you are a person whos devoted your life, like dr. neubauer has, to studying mental illness, then is that a factor that youre researching? >> the story is incredible. >> this is a disney movie. >> its a little darker than a disney movie. >> when we first met, we realized we had all these similarities. we had similar mannerisms. we both had studied film. then we also found out we both had suffered f...

Realizing there are legitimate crimes of hate crime and african-american man of such influence and notoriety within the african-american community and otherwise would use displays of nooses to demonstrate a hoax is outrageous and very emotional toll on me considering the fact of what a lot of african-americans have gone through in this country. from 1882 to 1968 there were over 4700 reported instances of hangings, lynchings i should say. with that being the case, knowing that this guy has used t...

What is the one big thing? >> were taking a look at the democratic field with bernie sanders in it and how old it is. the first person in, elizabeth warren in her 70s, bernie sanders in his late 70s entering yesterday. a lot of democrats are waiting for the person they think could split the difference candidate, joe biden, 76 himself. you look at congress, nancy pelosi, 78, her number, too, steny hoyer, 78. interesting because you just sta pose that where the partys energy is, the freshmen, aver...