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Anna chenault. >> mitchell is on the phone to her that night, calls her out of a party to talk to her, have her call him back on an anonymous phone so that he can check with her and make sure are the south vietnamese going to hold firm. are they going to not come to the peace talks? >> november second the fbi tapped the south vietnamese embassys telephone and overheard anna chenault telling the ambassador, hold on, were going to win. >> its no little thing to deny the president of the united sta...

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

Vietnam. with the death toll soaring, with protests and riots tearing the nation apart. president johnson had staked his legacy on getting america out of vietnam. >> i told all of you the other day -- >> johnson is talking to nixon, basically saying, i know youre interfering with my diplomacy, and i think its about as low as you can get. and nixon lies and denies that hes doing it. >> you just see that your people dont tell the south vietnamese that theyre going to get any better deal out of the...

Everett, how are you? >> all right. >> i want to talk to you as a friend and very confidentially, because i think -- >> three days before the election lyndon johnson strikes back. the president calls the senates top republican everett dirk son with a message for dick nixon. nixons people he says, are treading on dangerous ground. and the president has the goods to burn agent anna chenault. >> and heres the latest information we got. the agent says shes just talked to the boss, and he says just h...

>> the number one flying tiger and his chinese bride. general chenault played second world war history. >> anna chenault has an american story thats truly epically, even cinematically unique. shes a refugee from china. she rises to the highest levels of society in this country opinion what she did with that influence is a question of deadly seriousness. we got americas first taste of a candidate including with a foreign power to try to win a u.s. presidential election. and in this case, it would...

>> the issue is whether or not that representative is charged with taking steps to undermine the governments policy. >> while lbj and his national security team strategize about how to close the deal on the peace talks, the fbi begins around the clock surveillance on anna chenault. >> shes followed by the fbi, theres fbi reports of her activities. john mitchell is very concerned about talking to her and making sure that they only talk on an anonymous phone that wont be bugged. >> now that johnso...