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that were going on,
or even the kind
of war planning
that had been happening
inside the White House.
He had no idea
that the United States
had been developing
an atomic bomb.
LICHTMAN:
Which left Truman
with maybe one of the most
monumental decisions
a president ever had to make--
was he going to use the bomb
to try to force
the Japanese to surrender?
NARRATOR:
Truman's decisionto drop the atomic bomb
comes just four months
into his presidency.
In two strategic attacks,
the most destructive weapon
ever unleashed annihilates
two cities
and kills more than
200,000 people.
DOYLE:
Because Franklin Roosevelt
on the most important issue
facing the presidency
at that time,
Truman had to learn
on the job,
and Truman knew
how dangerous that was,
"I'm gonna make darn sure
that all my successors have
"knowledge of what's going on
before they're elected
president."
Truman takes action
to ensure that
future presidents
are more prepared
to take office.
DOYLE:
Truman had the idea:
let's have
the Democratic candidate,
Adlai Stevenson,
and the Republican candidate,
Dwight Eisenhower,
receive intelligence briefings
many weeks ahead
of the election.
Intelligence briefings
are now tradition,
and it's a very good one.
NARRATOR:
Candidates who receive
these classified
intelligence briefings
are required
to keep them private
as a matter
of national security.
But what if a candidate
exploits the nation's secrets
for political gain?
DOYLE:
At virtually the lastminute of the 1968 campaign,
something happened
that was so bizarre
and so shocking that the
details of it remained secret
for the next 50 years.
NARRATOR:
In the late 1960s,
America is once again at war.
The conflict in Vietnam
and is the leading issue
in the 1968 election.
Never has so much military power
been used so ineffectively.
UPDEGROVE:
Outgoing presidentLyndon Johnson
opted to brief all of the viable
presidential candidates:
Hubert Humphrey,
his vice president--
the Democratic candidate--
Richard Nixon,
the Republican candidate,
and George Wallace,
the Independent candidate.
And he briefed them
on what was happening
in the war in Vietnam.
NARRATOR:
In that briefing,President Johnson reveals
a bombshell.
His administration is
in secret talks to end the war.
After years
of careful persuasion,
top diplomats are
nearing an agreement
to bring both North
and South Vietnam
to the negotiating table.
If Johnson successfully
negotiates peace,
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