CBS News’s Walter Cronkite, the “Most Trusted Man in America,” left his anchor desk and traveled to Saigon. He uttered an unprecedented editorial: “How could the Vietnamese Communists have mounted this offensive with such complete surprise?…After all, the cities were supposed to be secure…. 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…. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as honorable people who lived up to their pledge to
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