The tide is turning. America is against the war

[yesthattom]

On Feb. 27 1968, Cronkite anchored a CBS special on the Vietnam War, concluding that: "To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in a bloody stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory conclusion." Bill Moyers, at the time President Lyndon Johnson's press secretary, reported later that Cronkite's statement led Johnson to believe that, if he had lost Cronkite's support, he had lost the support of middle America.

The equivalent has happened, but from an unlikely source: http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10353

Comments

[gmdraves.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link, Tom!

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

I would find that parallel more comforting if it weren't for the fact that it took 5 years from the time middle America stopped supporting Vietnam for us to remove our troops.