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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 embassy's telephone and overheard anna chenault telling the ambassador, hold on, we're going to win. >> it's no little thing to deny the president of the united states of america. this gave him the confidence to go forward in front of his national assembly and ...

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 york's 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 nixon's headquarters let's break it down. john mitchell. mitchell sentenced one of the

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...

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 senate's top republican everett dirk son with a message for dick nixon. nixon's people he says, are treading on dangerous ground. and the president has the goods to burn agent anna chenault. >> and here's the latest information we got. the agent says she's just talked to the boss, and he says just hold on until after the election. >> when you hear johnson talking to dirk son. you hear in johns...

>> the number one flying tiger and his chinese bride. general chenault played second world war history. >> anna chenault has an american story that's truly epically, even cinematically unique. she's 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 america's 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 also change the course of eye war. >> the chenault affair shows us this wealthy and connected as...