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Nixon at War: How Vietnam Led to Watergate

Richard Nixon's presidential portrait. Retouched 2022.
Richard Nixon's presidential portrait. Retouched 2022. [Wikimedia Commons]

June 17th marks 50 years since the infamous break-in. In this hour-long documentary from Steve Atlas, Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen tracks the story of Richard Nixon's spectacular fall back upstream to a different, and much earlier, source -- the war in Vietnam.