Richard Nixon #15: Re-election Landslide and Ending the Vietnam War (1972-1973); Topics covered include: Democrats nominate George McGovern in the 1972 election, Nixon is renominated by the Republicans, breakthroughs in the Vietnam Peace Talks but South Vietnamese President Nguyen Thieu won't sign onto the deal, Nixon wins re-election in a landslide, plans to change the organization of the executive branch, peace talks fall apart, Nixon orders the Christmas Bombing of North Vietnam, the North Vietnamese return to the negotiating table, Nixon issues an ultimatum to President Theiu to accept the deal on the table, Thieu reluctantly agrees, Nixon is inaugurated for his second term, Lyndon Johnson dies, the Paris Peace Accords are signed, some perspective on the outcomes of the Vietnam War, and the celebration for the returning American prisoners of war

Key people include: George McGovern, Thomas Eagleton, Sargent Shriver, Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho, Nguyen Thieu, Bob Haldeman, Elliott Richardson, Caspar Weinberger, Bill Rogers, Lyndon Johnson, and John Flynn

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Richard Nixon #14: Watergate: The Break-In (1972); Topics covered include: 1972 political pranksterism, Gordon Liddy's Gemstone plan, pressure from the White House to the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP) to move out on intelligence gathering of political opponents, break-ins (2) at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office building, the arrest of the burglars, initial press coverage of the break-in, initial efforts by the White House to cover-up any connection between the break-in and the White House staff (including the June 23 "smoking gun" meeting), John Dean's initial role in the cover-up, the "Enemies List" and attempts to use the IRS to get information on Democratic opponents, and the indictments of the Watergate burglars + Gordon Liddy + Howard Hunt

Key people include: Dwight Chapin, Donald Segretti, Howard Hunt, Chuck Colson, Gordon Liddy, John Mitchell, Jeb Magruder, John Dean, Bob Haldeman, Gordon Strahan, Larry O'Brien, Frank Wills, Ron Zeigler, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ken Dahlberg, Bernard Barker, Richard Helms, Vernon Walters, Pat Gray Johnnie Walters, and George Shultz

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Richard Nixon #13: Making History in China and the Soviet Union (1970-1972); Topics covered include: Nixon's interest in opening relations with China, realpolitik, "triangulation" strategy, Ping-Pong Diplomacy, agree to Summit with China, agree to subsequent summit with the Soviet Union, Taiwan is replaced by the People's Republic of China in the United Nations, Nixon's successful summit (substance and style), meeting with Mao Tse-tung, Panda Diplomacy, the Shanghai Communique, decision to mine Haiphong Harbor in North Korea, the Soviets do not cancel the summit over this action in North Vietnam, and Nixon's successful summit in the Soviet Union including relations with Brezhnev and several agreements signed between the two countries

Key people include: Chiang Kai-shek, Henry Kissinger, Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, Leonid Brezhnev, John Kennedy, John Foster Dulles, and Bob Haldeman

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Richard Nixon #12: Leaks and Plumbers (1971); Topics covered include: Faltering economy in 1971 and the response by the Nixon administration, the Huston Plan, the Pentagon Papers, establishing the Special Investigation Unit ("The Plumbers"), the break-in of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, the "Enenmies List," and Nixon's White House taping system

Key people include: John Connally, Tom Huston, Bob Haldeman, John Mitchell, Chuck Colson, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Henry Kissinger, Dabniel Ellsberg, Hugo Black, John Ehrlichman, Bud Krogh, David Young, Gordon Liddy, Howard Hunt, Lewis Fielding, Jeb Stuart Magruder, John Dean, Alexander Butterfield, Rose Mary Woods, and Pat Nixon

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Richard Nixon #11: Domestic Affairs and Life in the White House (1969-1971); Topics covered include: Domestic affairs including tax reform, ending the military draft, inability to pass welfare reform, success with environmental reform and desegregation of public schools in the South; Nixon fully focused on his job; Pat Nixon as First Lady; entertainment in the White House; Tricia Nixon marries Ed Cox in the White House; Cambodian incursion; Nixon meets with protestors at the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the night; Nixon's views of the Vietnam protestors; and assessment of the Cambodian incursion

Key people include: Theodore White, Pat Buchanan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Richard Russell, Alexander Butterfield, Bill Safire, Bob Haldeman, Pat Nixon, Duke Ellington, Tricia Nixon, Ed Cox, Jim Rhodes, Manolo Sanchez, and Joan Pelletier

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Richard Nixon #10: Getting Started (1968-1969); Topics covered include: President-elect, Julie Nixon's wedding to David Eisenhower, selection of Nixon's White House staff and Cabinet, secret bombing of Cambodia and the leak of that story, initial outreach to the North Vietnamese re: peace talks (no progress), mass anti-war protests, and Nixon's appeal to the "Silent Majority"

Key people include: Julie Nixon, David Eisenhower, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Bob Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Rose Mary Woods, Bill Rogers, Mel Laird, John Mitchell, Anatoly Dobrynin, J. Edgar Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Thieu, and Le Duc Tho

Correction at 9:31. Nixon's meeting with President Thieu in 1969 took place on Midway Island, not Guam.

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Richard Nixon #9: All the Way Back (including the Anna Chennault Affair) (1963-1968); Topics covered include: Family vacation in Europe; move to New York and new law firm; assassination of John Kennedy; 1964 election; 1966 midterm elections; early views on China; 1968 election including Nixon's nomination, divineness with the Democrats, and Hubert Humphrey's nomination; the Chennault Affair (Johnson's attempts to end the Vietnam War before the U.S. election and the apparent attempts by the Nixon campaign to thwart those efforts), and the election of Richard Nixon as President of the United States

Key people include: Pat Nixon, Tricia Nixon, Julie Nixon, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, Spiro Agnew, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Martin Luther King, Nguyen Thieu, George Wallace, Anna Chennault, John Mitchell, Everett Dirksen, John Farrell, Bob Haldeman, and Tom Huston

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Richard Nixon #8: Back-to-Back Defeats (1960-1962); Topics covered include: 1960 president election, Republican National Convention, relationship between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, religion in the campaign, the first televised presidential debates, outcome of the election, Nixon returns to the law and writes his first memoirs, the Bay of Pigs, Nixon runs for Governor of California and loses, and Nixon's "final" press conference

Key people include: Nelson Rockefeller, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Theodore White, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Robert Kennedy, Earl Adams, Alger Hiss, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Tom Dewey, Edmund Brown, and Herb Klein

Correction at 12:51. After the 1960 election, the Nixons moved to Los Angeles (not San Clemente).

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Richard Nixon #7: One of the More Consequential Vice Presidencies (1953-1960); Topics covered include: Inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, Nixon's primary roles as VP, trip to Asia/Middle East, 1954 midterm elections, Eisenhower's heart attack, election of 1956, Eisenhower's illnesses, trip to Latin America, facing Communist protestors in Peru and violent Communist protestors in Caracas, Venezuela, 1958 midterm election, and Nixon's trip to Moscow including the "Kitchen Debate" with Nikita Khrushchev

Key people include: Dwight Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, Murray Chotiner, John Foster Dulles, James Haggerty, Adlai Stevenson, Vernon Walters, John Sherwood, Nikita Khrushchev, and Harrison Salisbury

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Richard Nixon #6: The Fund Crisis and Checkers (1952); Topics covered include: Newspapers break the story of the Nixon Fund, rhetoric against Nixon builds, no one listening to his explanations, Dwight Eisenhower suggests he go on TV to explain everything, Nixon agrees and delivers the "Checkers Speech", reaction to the speech, and victory for Eisenhower and Nixon in the 1952 election

Key people include: Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Dana Smith, Pat Nixon, Milton Berle, Thomas Dewey, Mamie Eisenhower, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, and Franklin Roosevelt

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