ointed McNamara as the top position in the World Bank when the position opened. Johnson was not very kind to those who disagreed with him and did not show his optimism. An essential year in the war was 1968 when the North Vietnamese started the Tet Offensive. In January, the North Vietnamese and others against the South launched attacks against main cities in the South. The North Vietnamese used Soviet equipment to fight these battles, so they were well equipped for the war. The United States and South Vietnamese installations, including Saigon were attacked heavily by the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese army, but the Vietcong were destroyed and the war was left to the North Vietnamese army to fight. While Tet was a major military victory for the South, politically it was a victory for the opposition, because it demonstrated that the war was not almost over. The public opinion in the United States was starting to cause problems because people felt that the war was a waste. Johnson was starting to develop the attitude that enemies surrounded him. Johnson would not surrender to the North and was not going to give up on the war. Many of Johnson's advisers were no longer supporting the war and felt that the United States needs to get out of the war. Only Rusk, Rostow, and the Ambassador to Saigon Bunker, were keen on increasing the troops in the war. After the victory for the South and the United States, Westmoreland asked for another 200,000 troops to be sent to his aid. McNamara's successor, Clark Clifford who had a close relationship with Johnson made a point that how could the President justify sending reserves to the war after they publicly claimed that Tet was a last chance for the North to stop defeat and they had failed. Johnson then had a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Rusk, and the rest of his decision-makers in order to decide what to do about sending more troops. Johnson decided to send 10,500 reinforce...
