In 1971, President Nixon decided to seek a thaw in United States relations with Red China that culminated in an official state visit the following year.
The early political career of George Wallace which culminates in his election as governor of Alabama and subsequent standing in the schoolhouse door in order to prevent the University of Alabama from being integrated.
This episode deals mostly with George Wallace's third party bid for the Presidency in 1968 and his run for the Democratic nod in 1972 which ended with his being cut down and paralyzed by an assassin's bullet.