Nixon at War

By PRX

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Episodes: 48


 Jul 28, 2019

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Most accounts of the collapse of Richard Nixon’s presidency begin with Watergate — the now iconic tale of a bungled break-in and the misbegotten cover-up that followed.  But what led to Watergate?  How — and more puzzlingly, why — did one of the shrewdest, most gifted political figures of his time become embroiled in so manifestly lunatic an enterprise in the first place?  Intrigued by that question, writer/journalist Kurt Andersen takes a deep dive into the vast archives at the Nixon Library and emerges with an answer he wasn’t expecting: While Watergate doubtless accelerated Nixon’s spectacular fall, it was the Vietnam War that led inexorably to the break-in, and from there to the sinking of his presidency.

For Andersen, who came of age in the Vietnam era, that answer in turn begs another, larger question: How did Richard Nixon, with all his foreign policy savvy, allow himself to get trapped in the same quagmire he had watched engulf his predecessor, Lyndon Johnson? These questions are the central concerns of Nixon at War.  Over the course of seven episodes, Andersen peels back the onion and emerges with a new and deeper understanding of both the man and the war, and of the complex linkage between them.


Episode Date
S3 Ep 7 - Tangled Web
Jul 26, 2021
S3 Ep 6 - Off the Rails
Jul 19, 2021
S3 Ep 5 - Beginning of the End
Jul 11, 2021
S3 Ep 4 - Searchlight on the Lawn
Jul 05, 2021
S3 Ep 3 - Sideshow
Jun 28, 2021
S3 Ep 2 - Madame Chennault
Jun 21, 2021
S3 Ep 1 - October Surprise
Jun 14, 2021
Trailer - Welcome to Nixon at War
Jun 11, 2021
S2 Ep 7 - Post Script
Mar 17, 2020
S2 Ep 6 - The Engineer
Mar 10, 2020
S2 Ep 5 - Give Us the Ballot
Mar 03, 2020
S2 Ep 4 - Medicine Man
Feb 25, 2020
S2 Ep 3 - The Bully Pulpit
Feb 18, 2020
S2 Ep 2 - Mr. Poverty
Feb 11, 2020
S2 Ep 1 - The Great Unveiling
Feb 04, 2020
Trailer - Welcome to LBJ and the Great Society
Jan 20, 2020
Epilog: “I Shall Not Seek…”
Oct 03, 2017
S1 Ep 6 LBJ's War - The Shock of Tet
Sep 26, 2017
S1 Ep 5 LBJ's War - The Preacher and the President
Sep 19, 2017
S1 Ep 4 LBJ's War - Parting the Curtains
Sep 12, 2017
S1 Ep 3 LBJ's War - The Carrot and the Stick
Sep 05, 2017
S1 Ep 2 LBJ's War - The Tonkin Incident(s)
Sep 05, 2017
S1 Ep. 1 LBJ's War - The Churchill of Asia
Sep 05, 2017
Trailer - Welcome to LBJ’s War
Aug 28, 2017