Nixon takes the reigns handed down from Lyndon Johnson, the looming cloud of the Vietnam War and what to do next stares Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger squarely in the face.
The Nixon administration takes the American people and nation down the path towards "peace with honor" which Nixon aims to achieve through the most paradoxical idea possible. America will achieve peace with honor, according to Nixon, through waging "a war for peace." The war's end would be reached one way or another.