Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, Vietnam, and the Biggest Republican Presidential Landslide, Episode Three: Decent Interval I, Part One [video 7 min 29 sec]

Historian Jeffrey Kimball uncovered documents revealing how Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry A. Kissinger used the opening to China to secretly sell the Communists a "decent interval" deal -- a "peace" agreement that would merely postpone, not prevent, North Vietnam's final military victory.