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It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.

Walter Cronkite

1968

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1968

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Walter Cronkite

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Cronkite, Walter. "We are Mired in Stalemate." CBS Evening News, created by Don Hewitt, CBS News Productions, 27 Feb. 1968.

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