Episode 100: RICHARD NIXON 1973 Ten Days in January ( Part 4 ) FINALLY PEACE WITH HONOR

Our Season 5 Finale:

In this episode we listen in as a nation says farewell to one of its most  larger than life leaders, the former President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. We tune in at his funeral services in Washington D.C. and in Texas. 

Then we travel halfway around the world to hear the signing of the Paris Peace accords that would effectively end the Vietnam War for America after a decade of lost youth and treasure. The South Vietnamese government would sign the agreement and President Nixon would secretly assure the South that if the North moved on them he would return to aid in their defense.  We had finally  gotten out of the war with honor and our POW's would soon be home. 

We end the season " 1972, The Foundation of Peace "  with a peace treaty  in Vietnam.

 Richard Nixon would go to sleep on the night of January 29, 1973, on top of the political world with what he thought was a secure place in history alongside George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as one of the greatest Presidents in all of American History. He had plans for a second term that while less dramatic would have changed our nation dramatically, foreseeing the many issues we have today, from Healthcare, to the environment, to major welfare reform, to government restructuring, and revenue sharing, by a full half century. 

It all seemed to be coming together for this President like no agenda had ever been put together in our history. What could possibly go wrong?

On January 30th, the tenth day in this remarkable run by President Richard Nixon, the defendants in the Watergate trial would be convicted and the unraveling of a cover up by the President's men would lay in motion a set of events that would bring Richard Nixon down and overshadow all that he had achieved for America. 

 It has been decades since the Watergate Scandal removed Richard Nixon from office, but he always claimed that history would declare him one of our greatest Presidents, and that one day his side of the story would eventually emerge.  It never has.

But it will now, starting on May 16, 2022,  on our show "Bridging the Political Gap" 

and it will change everything you ever thought you knew about Richard Nixon........

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