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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 ...

>> the plot is born. july 12th. the tpierre hotel. nixon campaign headquarters. the candidate and a top foreign diplomat meet in secret in an iconic tower on new yorks fifth avenue. >> the only people present at this meeting were nixon himself, his campaign chairman, john mitchell, and chenault and the vietnamese ambassador. nixon decided to make it a very shady operation indeed. >> just four people, alone in a back room at nixons headquarters. lets break it down. john mitchell. nixons 1968 camp...