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August 1968, anna chenault touches down in siaigon. now anna had come to join the struggle as richard nixon's secret agent. >> i went with her on one of her trips to saigon, we stayed at the hotel caravel downtown where most of the reporters are staying. it's a weird atmosphere from the hotel restaurant on top. you could see flairs on the edge of the city, bright lights in the night sky. bombs, and so on. the war was a part of everybody's life. >> chenault arrived in saigon with an ironclad ally, her work

Wants nixon to think he's got the goods on nixon himself. nixon wants johnson to think he has nothing to do with this. >> my god, i would never do anything to encourage hanoi -- "mean saigon, i mean we want them in paris. you have to get them to paris or you can't have a peace. >> lbj knew there was collusion with the south vietnamese government to keep them from negotiating peace. what lbj couldn't prove definitively is that nixon was involved. >> some of the old china lobby are going around and imply. >> anyone with half a brain knows that richard nixon is behind this efforts to sabotage the...

Peace. nixon was playing to win. ready to undermine lbj, to steer sigh began away from the negotiating table with a word in the ear from richard nixon's asian connection, mrs. anna chenault.

And vietnamese history. >> she was a businesswoman. she was a journalist, she was a significant fund raiser for the republican party. >> i think she would love to have been an ambassador, loved to have some 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've seen hundreds of pictures of her, she's the only woman in the picture. you know, a dozen men and there's anna chenault standing in the middle. >> what is going on in vietnam...

Proposed this meeting to nixon. >> nixon is eager to meet but wants to keep it secret, even from his own secret service detail. which is suspicious all by itself. >> secret meetings, middlemen and women, foreign ambassadors and a tower in new york city. >> exactly what is said is not really recorded anywhere. but the clear message from nixon to the ambassador was, if you want to communicate anything to me. use mrs. chenault as a way to talk to me. >> the intrigue begins. the goal is to undermine the peace talks that president johnson believes will end the war. sabotage any negotiations that mi...