I agree. I will say most of Nixon’s cease fires were as a direct result of Congress giving him so much heat, he basically had no choice. LBJ, not the same thing at all.
Those stupid cease-fires. Good grief.
We should have given North Vietnam five days to stop all hostilities or we would level Hanoi within 48 hours, then move on to the next biggest city.
We pussy footed around.
Ditto that. Johnson could have ended that war after Tet by just leveling Hanoi. Instead he stopped bombing, turned a gerat victory into defeat, and pissed on the guys both American and ARVN who won those battles -- all because that f***'n lefty Walter Cronkite raised his eye brow at him.
Johnson was an political idiot who lived for popularity not leadership. When Johnson blinked in the face of a creep like Cronkite, that was the moment the media realized that they set the agenda, not the people.
Things have never been the same since.