It was October of 1968--just a few days before the presidential election between Republican nominee Richard Nixon and Democrat Hubert Humphry. The North and South Vietnamese forces, at war since 1963, were talking about peace. The fighting had stopped and President Johnson appeared on national television to report that the war was winding down. The end of the Vietnam War was in sight.
Except it wasn't. A few days later, the war was on again. How could that happen? What went wrong? How did the war continue another five years and cost thousands more their lives?
Rachel Maddow presents us a scenario of how that could have happened. And it's scary.
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