If I may add a revision to that:
The Vietnam War. A war America lost abroad because of what occurred at home.
The Vietnam War was not the first war brought to us courtesy of the lies and manipulations of the media. That was the Spanish American War.
But the Vietnam war was the first war America could see playing out on our TV sets each night. And It was the media that obediently broadcasted the lies they were told to report by McNamara and others.
In the Oval Office and in the majority Democrat Legislative branch.