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Ken Hughes, writer/director of Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, Vietnam & the Biggest Republican Landslide, is a Research Fellow with the Miller Centers Presidential Recordings Program of the University of Virginia.

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President Richard M. Nixon timed U.S. military withdrawal from Vietnam to his 1972 reelection campaign. He negotiated a "decent interval" deal with North Vietnam to postpone, not prevent, Communist victory in the South. He played politics with American lives.

Publicly, Nixon said he would bring the troops home only when South Vietnam could defend and govern itself; privately, he realized it wouldn't be able to do either. To hide his failure, he sacrificed thousands of American soldiers.

Over the past decade, the declassification of secretly recorded Nixon White House tapes and Top Secret National Security Council documents has convinced a growing number of scholars that this President prolonged a war and faked a peace for political reasons.

Fatal Politics, a web documentary miniseries, is your opportunity to see and hear for yourself what the declassified documents and tapes confirm -- a President made decisions of life and death, war and peace, on the basis of political calculation. This is more than we want to know, but not more than we need to know.

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