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“The Spring General Offensive” is the book that discusses it, the memoir.
Another good quote. “The Tet objectives were beyond our strength. They were based on the subjective desires of the people who made the plan. Hence our losses were large, in materiel and manpower, and we were not able to retain the gains we had already made. Instead we faced myriad difficulties in 1969 and 1970.”
And here is an excellent article about him, at least by NYT standards. Might help your son’s argument, having liberal NYT to back him up.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E6DF1639F936A15757C0A960958260
Best of luck. I’ll be doing a similar project on civil liberties, although it’s more of a semester project and it’s hard to tell that she’s a lefty. Nice that although all my teachers are big lefties, they don’t discuss it in class and the history teacher openly discusses biases he might have (such as growing up in the sixties, being anti-war, influences his view on the US Civil War). So, anyways, good luck.
Also, what did Johnson say about Cronkites broadcast, and what did Cronkite report?
Thanks again.