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Actually, I think the movement did have a major affect in public sentiment turning against the war. The only negative was the protesters' credibility. These were college-age young people with long hair and radical practices for the most part. And their problem was more anti-establishment than it was reasonable problems with the Vietnam War itself. They did, with the help of the media, keep the questions about the war in the public eye. The true stopping point, however, was during the "TET" new year's offensive in February, 1968. Highly respected CBS TV Anchor Walter Cronkite visited Vietnam during this time, and came home declaring that we were losing in Vietnam. That quickly stopped congressional funding and robbed the senior military leadership of their call to expand the war to win. When President Johnson announced that spring that he would not seek re-election, it was like throwing in the towel. Richard Nixon ran on a promise to end the war, which he did through the Paris Accords. By April 25, 1973, all U.S. forces had withdrawn from Vietnam. South Vietnam collapsed from North Vietnam incursion exactly two years later.

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