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Walter Cronkite / Johnson / President #1211654

CBS Evening News for Tuesday, Feb 27, 2018
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It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could. That was Walter Cronkite fifty years ago tonight. Thirty three days later, President Johnson announced he would not run for reelection. Years later, Cronkite reflected on Johns...
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