Richard Nixon in Episode 235 General Alexander Haig A Player on the World Stage ( A Special Series Part D ) The Phone Call , 1973 The End of the Vietnam War (Tape Series 18)
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In this final look back at the phone calls of Richard Nixon with Alexander Haig it is December of 1972 and January of 1973. The end of the War for America in Vietnam seems at hand. We will hear the two men work on these final problems and issues concerning getting an agreement to end the war.
We will also hear them as they learn of the death of President Nixon's predecessor Lyndon Johnson and the ultimate irony that he would die literally on the eve of peace and not live to see it for himself.
This is an extraordinary look inside the White House at one of the most difficult times in all of our history, listening in on two of history's most significant players.
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