This book examines the events that led up to the day–March 31, 1968–when Lyndon Johnson dramatically renounced any attempt to be reelected president of the United States. It offers one of the best descriptions of U.S. policy surrounding the Tet offensive of that fateful March–a historic turning point in the war in Vietnam that led directly to the end of American military intervention.

Originally published in 1977.

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