In the end, it was a win for the United States, the ARVN, and the South Vietnamese, it was also a loss because the mentality of the public was just too huge. Many doves started to appear and this had a huge impact on Johnson's decision of the bombing halt. The public outcry was for a movement to begin to remove US troops from the battlefields of Vietnam, and after Têt, this outcry was definitely heard in Washington. But, removing of troops would undergo six years later, during Nixon's fourth year as president. Yet the emotions were mixed; most wanted to get the men out, yet most did not want to lose neither. "Like Johnson and Nixon, the majority of Americans in 1968and 1969 wanted to 'get out' but 'didn't want to lose." (Spector 315). For many years, the Vietnam War was a stalemate for both sides, but in the end, containment did not work, the communists had won, thanks to the 1968 Têt Offensive.

Yet, situations on the home-front did not look good at all. After Têt, so many Americans opposed the idea of sending more of American troops to Vietnam for their death sentence. These people ("doves") demonstrated their anger of the event by protesting in large masses and sometimes these protests result in violent riots. Other Americans were beginning to lean towards the mentality of the doves and began to side with them also. Now, there are more Americans greatly opposed to the Vietnam issue, and President Johnson was getting nervous, for he did not know what to do. On the other hand, there were some, very few but some, Americans who wanted to send in more troops in order to win the war and finally put an end to the butchering of valuable lives. The "hawks" as they were called, were found in very small numbers after Têt; most of the new doves were composed of the former hawks.

Eighty four thousand enemy troops, mostly Viet Cong, were involved. They attacked thirty six of the forty four provincial capitals, five of the autonomous cities, sixty four of the two hundred forty two district capitals, and fifty hamlets. (Boettcher 342). In most of these cities it took only about two to three days to clear out the Communist soldiers and in some cases two to three hours. But Saigon and five other cities took several more days to chase out the NVA and Vietcong. A group of nineteen Viet Cong attacked Saigon by blowing a hole in the wall surrounding the city. The attack on Saigon was directed specifically towards the US embassy. The group of nineteen tried to break through the MP's but failed to even enter the main embassy building. As soon as the group penetrated, there was an exchange of fire; two marines and two Viet Cong were killed. The mini-battle lasted on for several hours and by the time American reinforcements arrived by way of helicopter, the battle was over. All of nineteen of the Viet Cong commandos were killed ; bodies were strewn all over the embassy lawn.

The NVA and Viet Cong forces lost their strategic surprise but they achieved tactical surprise because they attacked on Têt, a holiday so meaningful to the Vietnamese that very few believed that even the co

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