The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. What lingers for us is that Watergate came to a head during the most desperate days of a war for the freedom and self-determination of the 50 million or more people of South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. World War II to the mid 1960s. In his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows ("the best account yet of Nixon’s devious interference with Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 Vietnam War negotiations"-- Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of the covert activity that culminated in Watergate.In Fatal Politics, Hughes turns to the final years of the war and Nixon’s reelection bid of 1972 to expose the president’s darkest secret. An article in The Washington Post reports that a check for $25,000 earmarked for Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign was deposited into the bank account of … ... Eugene Meyer, bought the Washington Post at auction. The Washington Post. ... they were a secret history of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. He is, sadly, unmentioned in the movie.

The True Story Behind The Post. Richard Nixon in 1968 had a “secret plan” to end the Vietnam War but 31,000 American dead when he was elected grew to 58,000 by the Paris Peace Accords.

When the Washington Post fell away from the war, Wiggins quit, ahead of his retirement, and became LBJ’s ambassador to the United Nations. The Nixon administration moved to block further publication of the papers, and Attorney General John Mitchell obtained a temporary injunction against The New York Times. ... the public about progress in the Vietnam War. A fter reading and hearing wildly contradictory accounts of Ken Burns & Lynn Novick’s Vietnam War documentary on PBS, I decided I had to watch the thing. [1] The students entered the freeway shouting anti-Vietnam War slogans, carrying protest banners and sporting peace signs. Editors at the Post had a small window of time to jump on the story. One redeeming thing about PBS’s documentary ‘The Vietnam War’ is its acknowledgment of how Richard Nixon treasonously prolonged the criminal violence. then released two installments before being similarly enjoined.

The True Story of Katharine Graham and The Post. On Tuesday, May 5, 1970, at approximately 1:50 pm 6,000 University of Washington (UW) students marched off campus and poured on to the Interstate 5 freeway and headed south towards the Federal Courthouse.