In the vietnam war, the tet offensive of 1968 showed that

Johnson was as shocked as the nation at the tet offensive and it showed that anything could have happened in that country johnsons approval ratings 70/49/36 in just four years, congress and Johnson refused to send extra 200,000 troops at westmorelands request - America had to withdraw according to clark Clifford Johnson announced that he wouldn't be running re-election of the presidency, the wise men saw this as a opportunity to suggest the policy of vietnamisation clark Clifford became completely anti communist after this - tet encouraged anti war presidential candidates to appose Johnson