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Walter Cronkite Remembers His Tet Offensive Editorial

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On Feb. 27, 1968, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite broadcast an editorial criticizing the escalation of U.S. forces in Vietnam. In the aftermath of the Tet offensive, Cronkite had traveled to Vietnam to interview soldiers and civilians. Returning to the United States, Cronkite shared his observations with the American public. In favor of diplomatic negotiations, Cronkite rejected President Lyndon B. Johnson's optimism for further military deployment to end the standoff between U.S. and Viet Cong forces. In a 1996 interview, Cronkite remembers the effect his editorial had on President Johnson, who was reported to have said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Author: Newseum

Length: 02:08
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ZoEe275 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
how did the tet offensive influence nationalism movement in vietnam at that time???
mikemoair (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
walter cant stand how the evening news has become such a joke, with all the cable 24/7 news, the evening news is just spewing history by the time it comes on.
bluemax79 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Yes we can. Stupidity would be to not fight a war to gain freedom or to defend ourselves.
TheJuggaler (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
The only way the war could have been won would be to drop an A-Bomb on Vietnam.
patocorona (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
wow! I feel sorry for you Travis. To win a war, can we get more stupid than that?
zendcs (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Tet Offensive? 1968
breezeman199 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
The only way the war could have been 'won' would have been to send a corps-sized force into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail and keep them there. Which is just what Eisenhower concluded after his own private, personal study of the military problems in Indo-China in 1960. He told this to both Kenneddy and Johnson and was ignored.
TravisB19 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
What a traitor.This war could have been won, but wally comes out and calls defeat in a massive tet offensive victory.
hamshow (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Traitor to the cause of what? World domination by the U.S.??? Vietnam should have been left to them not us! They fought the French for independence remember or that doesn't matter. It's for us to tell them how to run their own country I guess...
bigroy38 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Hook'em,Walter!!


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