CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite coming back from the city of Hue in South Vietnam at the end of the Tet Offensive in early 1968 declared, outright, the war as lost even though the Tet Offensive was a military victory for the U.S. and South Vietnamese army. President LBJ was taken aback by Cronkite's analysis "If I lost Walter Cronkite, I lost middle America." He droped of the the presidential race a month later. What if Walter Cronkite were a bit more restrained and tactful in his editorial did not declare the Vietnam war as altogether lost? What would be the course of the American conduct of the Vietnam War? And LBJ would LBJ not drop out of the race? Thoughts.