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At the height of the Vietnam War in January 1968, the Viet Cong launched their New Year "Tet" offensive, which was labeled a US military victory after great difficulty that included ejecting the guerrillas from their brief occupation of the US Embassy in Saigon.

But politically, the Americans had lost the battle for hearts and minds, both of the Vietnamese people, on whose behalf they claimed to combat the communists, and on behalf of the American people. It was then that a beleaguered president Lyndon Johnson, who decided not to seek re-election, sought advice on a way out of the Vietnam quagmire. A savvy general put it aptly: "Why don't we just proclaim to the world that we have won the war and just get the hell out of Vietnam?"