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Days before the 1968 presidential election. >> mr. president, im getting right 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 adversary, richard nixon, the republican candidate for president. >> lyndon johnson is desperate to get the north vietnamese and south vietnamese at the peace table. >> we all want them to come, and hope theyll come and really believe theyll come. >...

2,000 troops in syria, you have killed thousands of isis fighters, mostly using that. we lost four american since 2015 protecting the homeland from isis. chief petty officer cooper dayton, air force sergeant, army specialist murphy, army master sergeant don bar. fighting isis on protecting us. these are american heroes. if we leave syria before the time is right, isis will come back and around will fill the vacuum. heres the good news. the president has isis on the ropes, and afghanistan, we hav...

Drawing down in afghanistan and thats a very justifiable argument, the way we do it matters. at the same time that we have this announcement about drawing down, were negotiating with the taliban for peace. what does the taliban most want? their number one demand is to get the united states out. the idea that were giving that up for nothing, that were not getting them to the peace table and nettigotiating is really terrible negotiating, no matter what you think about whether our troops should go ...

Taliban has incentive to sit down for peace talks? youve dropped more bombs in afghanistan than you have just in recent weeks in more than a decade, so are you trying to bomb th taliban to the peace table? >> the taliban have made very clear that the lives of the afghan people have no interest to them. they know they cannot win at the ballot box, thats been their position and thats why you -- they use bombs, they try to terrorize people to dominate them. we are going to stand with the 41 nations...

Fighters that are fighting in yemen and we are providing the saudis with military to military advice and how to get it done. we are also trying to get people to the peace table. i think cutting off a relationship with a long-time ally and making matters worse and leaving things at more chaos which would be the result of passing this resolution that may be coming up again i think it would make it less likely that the peace negotiations succeed. we very much need for the peace process to work. >> ...

Its november 3rd. two days before the 1968 presidential election. >> mr. president, im getting the president on. >> yes, dick. >> in a call secretly recorded by the white house, president lyndon johnson draws a line in the sand for his old at ver sarry, richard nixon, the republican candidate for president. >> lyndon johnson is desperate before his term runs out to get the north vietnamese and the south vietnamese at the peace table. >> we all want them to come and hope theyll come and really be...

>> its not totally unusual that an american presidential candidate would have go-between with a war-time ally. the issue is whether or not that representative is charged with taking steps to undermine the governments policy. >> while bbj and his national security team strategize about how to close the deals on the peace talks the fbi begins surveillance on anna chennault. shes followed by the fbi. theres fbi reports of her activities. john mitchell is very concerned about talking to her and maki...

Days before the 1968 presidential election. >> mr. president, im getting him right on. >> mr. president? >> yes. >> in a call secretly recorded by the white house, president lynden johnson draws a line in the sand for his old adversary. >> johnson is desperate to get the north vietnamese and the south vietnamese at the peace table. >> we all want them to come and hope theyll come really believe theyll come. >> nixon was trying to sabotage those peace talks. if peace talks were announced before e...

>> its not totally unusual that an american presidential candidate would have a go-between with a wartime ally. 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 strategized about how to close the deal on the peace talks, the fbi begins round-the-clock surveillance on anna chennault. >> shes followed by the fbi. theres fbi reports of her activities. john mitchell is very concerned about ta...

>> its not totally unusual that an american presidential candidate would have a go-between with a war-time ally. 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 round-the-clock surveillance on anna chennault. shes followed by the fbi. there is fbi reports of her activities. john mitchell is very concerned about tal...