Tet Offensive event
also: Tet Offense, 1968 Tet Offensive
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▶ 2:31
And basically, the two of them are kind of the runaway, gaining lots of traction. At the end of January, the Tet Offensive, which I'm going to cover, happens and blows LBJ's chance of re-election, actually, because the whole 67 leading into…
▶ 7:02
the CIA's involvement in the Nixon campaign and a lot of other gems. So that kind of takes us up to where we're going to start today. I briefly wanted to, because it's so relevant to today with the Ukraine disaster, I wanted to briefly go o…
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the 30 30th of january um 1968 so right in the middle of the beginnings of the primary season and basically what that was i'm going to just read you a little bit from an article that was written by um james will banks and it…
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basically says it was the turning point of the Vietnam War. It changed the entire way the United States approached the war before the Tet Offense of the U.S. objective in Vietnam was to win, which I disagree with. Our presence there was alw…
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impacted the Tet Offensive, you have to go to the previous year of 1967, where we had spent two years of fighting at that point with increasing casualties. And basically what had happened in the lead up to the Tet Offensive is that the Nort…
▶ 9:52
In the couple of days leading up to the January 30th Tet Offensive beginning, they looked like they were overcoming the border into South Vietnam in one particular area that they had used heavily as this kind of shell game with the U.S. And…
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were at minimum protection now because of the months leading up in this distraction campaign that the North had orchestrated. And basically, it left the U.S. with their pants down and devastating results in the urban areas. And as a result …
▶ 11:10
You have some difference of opinions of like the tactical level success versus the operational level. But just understand that that Tet Offensive was the major turning point. It was the revelation to the U.S. population that they had been l…
▶ 11:37
This is not the first lie our government has told us. It won't be the last lie our government has told us. Everything about Vietnam was a lie. But the Tet Offensive is like the key revelation. It was the day that the curtain on the guy stan…
▶ 12:30
I wanted to explain that so people understand just how important that was. And also, we're going to talk towards the end, as I lay this out, the deep, deep ties to the military-industrial complex to include murders.…
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The Tet Offensive starts in Vietnam. And probably tomorrow, I'm going to explain more of the Vietnam angle to this whole thing. We'll get into Vietnam when we do the Asian thing, but it is relevant to this. So we'll do kind of a sketch of w…
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which isn't exactly what happened at all. And the police chief was basically on the dole of the CIA. So you can kind of see, we start the Tet Offensive, Nixon announces, and then right away, we've got something to do with the Vietnam explod…
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If you read other accounts for this, he was driven out of the program because he was not as ruthless as they wanted him to be. In the wake of the 1968 Tet Offensive, Mr. Chow began to call for a negotiated settlement of the war. This earned…
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checked IDs against blacklists at every checkpoint, and there were checkpoints everywhere. By December 1967, approximately 500 Viet Cong action agents were apprehended in Saigon and the surrounding area. The significance of these arrests an…
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In 67 to 69, he was the undersecretary of the Air Force at the Pentagon. He was, I guess, a first-hand witness of the Tet Offensive, and it really turned him against the war. He started advising against it. He would kind of change his spots…
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was backing the entire time. The elections had nothing to do with democracy. It had everything to do with consolidating the Western power in South Vietnam. For much of this period, Ed Lansdale resided in Saigon in one last incarnation. This…
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thus remained entirely in the hands of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, the civilians. Clark Clifford's panel concerned itself primarily with efficiency, not legality. Many of its inquiries during LBJ's last years concerned air…