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Johnson had escalated the war but now 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 that 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 ...

Throw a monkey wrench into the process. and he's ordering haldeman to make sure anna chennault stays active. nixon had always denied any personal knowledge of anna chennault's behavior, and wow, all of a sudden here he is in haldeman's notes saying keep anna chennault working on the south vietnamese, any way else we can monkey wrench johnson's initiatives. it was not just one casual remark. it's a whole battle plan. >> the very next day after nixon orders his chief of staff to monkey wrench it to keep anna chennault on the job, telling saigon to not go along with the peace talks, the very next...

12th, we have three men in a hotel room, a veteran politician, plotting his comeback, the man running his political operation, and south vietnam's man in washington. plus, one lone woman. anna chennault. >> because i have the opportunity to not only talking to the leaders but the people. >> nixon knew that anna chennault could establish a relationship between him and the south vietnamese and that just in case it became public, nixon could pretend that she was not his real envoy. >> after just ten years in washington, d.c., anna had fast tracked her way to wealthy and influence, and a penthouse...

American and vietnamese history. >> she was a businesswoman, she was a journalist, a significant fundraiser for the republican party. >> i think she would have loved to have been an ambassador, would have loved to have had a major job but i don't think in those days, men didn't take women seriously that way. >> she was in a way ahead of her time, to have these feelings about, gee, why are all the people making decisions white men. >> i have seen hundreds of pictures of her, a dozen men and there's anna chennault in the middle. >> what is going on in vietnam? >> i just returned from the far eas...

>> the number one flying tiger and his chinese brian, former newspaper woman of shanghai, general shanault made second world war history as commander of sky battles in china. >> anna has a story that is truly, epically, sinmatically unique, a refugee from the communist takeover of china, rises to the highest levels of society and political influence in this country but then what she did with that influence is a question of deadly seriousness because with anna shanault and richard nixon, we got america's first taste of a candidate colluding with a foreign power to try to win a u.s. presidential...