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Process and he's ordering haldeman to make sure anna chenault stays active. nixon had always denied any personal knowledge of anna chenault's behavior, and wow! all of a sudden, here he is in haldeman's notes saying, keep chenault working on the south vietnamese. anyway else we can monkey wrench johnson's initiatives. it's a whole battle plan. >> the very next day after nixon orders his chief of staff to monkey wrench it, to keep anna schenn at on the job. telling saigon to not go along with the peace talks. he wires his superiors back home in saigon. he says this, many republican friends have...

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 you're interfering with my diplomacy, and i think it's about as low as you can get. and nixon lies and denies that he's doing it. >> you just see that your people don't tell the south vietnamese that they're going to get any better deal out of the united states government. >> your people, that's how he puts it to nixon, your people are mess...

Could establish a relationship between him and the south vietnamese. just in case it became public. nixon could pretend she was not his real envoy. >> after just 10 years in washington, d.c.. anna had fast tracked her way to wealth and influence. and a penthouse on top of the brand new watergate complex which she made into her clubhouse for the global elite. >> she loved to do parties. she's notoriously known as the republican social hostess of the nixon era. >> i just remember that when she would walk into a room. she owned the room. >> she had a lot of sexual power. i'm not saying she had se...

Freight airline. anna had access. >> she always operated from behind the scenes, because she was a back channel operator. >> who is going to have the power to keep peace. >> and now artillery is being called in as you can hear. >> 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 our living rooms every night. >> keep rolling. >> people would be watching the 6:00 news during dinner and see the carnage of vietnam. >> all hell has broken loose. >> 1968 was lbj's fifth year as commander in chief. it was the singl...

As an airline executive, and contacts that went right to the top, to south vietnam's new president. >> the information from the campaign to the government was nixon's going to win the war for you, he's going to stand by you better than any democrat. >> for anna, this mission for nixon was driven by bitter personal history. >> she hated the communists because she hated what had happened to china. it was about china, china, china. >> anna believes she was on the right side of history, that the worst thing for asia and the asian people was communism. >> only by showing our strength, that we'll be...