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President receives optimistic reports - Nov 13, 1967 - HISTORY.com
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President Lyndon Johnson is briefed on the situation in Vietnam by Gen. William Westmoreland, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, and Robert W. Komer, the head of the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support program. They painted an optimistic picture that led Johnson to state on television on November 17 that, while much remained to be done, “We are inflicting greater losses than we’re taking…We are making progress.” Such pronouncements haunted President Johnson and his advisers only two months later, when the communists launched a massive offensive during the Tet New Year holiday in January 1968.
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President receives optimistic reports - Nov 13, 1967 - HISTORY.com
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In hindsight strategic optimism based on some tactical victories indicated poor assessment of ten actual situation and bad judgment on the part of Gen. William Westmoreland, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, and Robert W. Komer, the head of the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support program SP5 Mark Kuzinski.
It is important to have advisors who are honest and wise and certainly yes men and women should be avoided as advisors to any POTUS.
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It is important to have advisors who are honest and wise and certainly yes men and women should be avoided as advisors to any POTUS.
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As it turned out, the '68 Tet offensive was a disastrous loss on the ground for the NVA and was the end of effective action by the V.C., which was a broken force. Had we kept up our courage at that point the war would have had a very different end.
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Capt Seid Waddell
SPC Jeff Daley, PhD, agreed. The first military loss in the history of our country was the gift of our American left. The second loss (Iraq) was also the gift of that same group.
Elections have consequences.
Elections have consequences.
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