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...Viet Nam had once seemed necessary and reasonable, the sort of thing a just power must some times do in an imperfect world. But now they began to wonder whether the price, for anyone or any side, was worth it. Was the U.S. really accomplishing anything? Above all, after Tet in 1968 and America's growing sense of failure, they began to discuss a mushy and unfamiliar concept among war planners: morality. Such was Daniel Ellsberg's private evolution...
...advocating a political settlement in Viet Nam that would include non-Communist members of the National Liberation Front. A month after McNamara's resignation as Defense Secretary, President Johnson withdrew from the presidential race and ordered a partial bombing halt along the lines that McNamara had suggested earlier. TET AFTERMATH. In a secret report to President Johnson, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Wheeler presented a more pessimistic assessment of the effects of the 1968 Tet offensive than officials in Washington and Saigon had made available to the public. While echoing official statements that the Viet Cong forces...
...will and the capability to continue." The bleak prognosis, coupled with a request for a 206,756-troop increase, came at a time when military and civilian leaders within the Johnson Administration were characterizing Tet as an allied victory that had left the Viet Cong crippled and ineffective...
Soon Ellsberg, who seemed set for a brilliant Government career, was beginning to feel the lash of collective guilt. Even before the Tet offensive in 1968, he began to voice his doubts about the war; his initial attack came during a gathering of intellectuals in Bermuda under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Endowment. As the war dragged on, his sense of personal guilt heightened and his torment deepened. His conflict had developed to the point that even Kissinger was reluctant to include Ellsberg in the Nixon planning group...
...government's request. District Court Judge Murray I. Gurfein ordered the Times to halt temporarily publication of a series which collates the Pentagon's study of American involvement in Vietnam through the 1968 Tet offensive...