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Most historians agree it was the TET offensive of 1968. When TV anchorman Walter Cronkite made his statement concerning that battle on nation wide TV, President Johnson made the comment, "...if I've lost Cronkite, I've lost the war..."

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There is a photo of NVA (T-54) tank #844, flying a communist flag atop it's turret, crashing through the gate of South Vietnam's presidential palace in Saigon, on 30 April 1975. The was the end of the war.

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The TET Offensive of '68 became the "handwriting on the wall."

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Tet '68. 1968 TET Offensive.

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The TET offensive of '68.

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