By the start of the new year, the papers calling on the administration to rule out escalation and seek a negotiated exit from the war included, in addition to the Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Milwaukee Journal, the Miami Herald, the Salt Lake City Tribune, the Providence Journal, the Minneapolis Star, the Des Moines Register, the New York Post, the Indianapolis Times, the San Francisco Examiner, the Chicago Daily News, and the Hartford Courant. Even the generally hawkish Chicago Tribune warned that the United States might be pushed out of Vietnam if it did not withdraw:
