Posted on Nov 13, 2017
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.
President receives optimistic reports - Nov 13, 1967 - HISTORY.com
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This time in history was a dark time. In 1968 me and my friends sat on the curb in Garden Grove California and watched the black sedans come down our street to see who's house they went to. Will there ever be a time when our Government stops lying to us and it gives it straight. I believe President Trump is a beginning.
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I can't believe they candy coated things like that. Body count is not really a barometer of winning unless your model is from Mid-Evil Times. Morning SP5 Mark Kuzinski
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SSgt Donald Libby
General Westmoreland was a strong believer in statistics like McNamara and body count was one of them. His theory was, and McNamara and the "band", when the enemy is losing more troops than they can kill of the RVN and US troops then they would come ro the negotiation table. Didn't work out too well because politics were still at play.
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