>> westmoreland saw light at the end of the tunnel.e north v vietnamese and say, where the hell is that light at the end of the tunnel stuff? we're being run over all over. >> right up to the tet offensive, westmoreland talked about military victory. the white house talked in terms of military victory. the tet offensive ended that talk. >> cold hard facts, we do not have control. >> lbj is fending off the doves that want to cut and run and fending off the hawks, saying we'll need a couple hundred thousand more immediately. at this point, he's very much alone. >> cronkite's report -- >> in these ruins can be seen physical evidence of the viet cong's tet offensive. >> young people will not realize that one journalist could be as powerful in his influence as walter cronkite. >> middle america loved his commentary and his lack of judgment. he was not given to making comments that wril advised. >> walter was famous for never expressing an opinion. that was his strong point. he was a straight down the line journalist. >> to say we are closer

eddie westmoreland has owned the american hang out for dozens of years, one of the restaurants participating in the restaurant week. for ten days you will enjoy diverse cuisines, menus unique to each restaurant. this has sliced many restaurants' bottom lines and many are struggling two years after so something like this is necessary. >> we are looking forward to having people back in the restaurant enjoying stuff, doing what we do best which is take care and feed people. >> this kicks off today until sunday february 27. this event is at a time when covid regulations are again easing and weather seems anything but typical for february across the bay. >> the last two years have easily been the hardest ever in the industry. every restaurant that survived was able to do it by shifting and rebranding and focusing on what they needed to do, getting support of the community. so just getting through it has been amazing. >> reporter: for a full list of the restaurants participating go to kpix.com. >> looks good. >>> coming up on kpix5 and streaming on cbs news bay area. >> chinese new year parade and

about general westmoreland, this was the first war i think other than korea. career, the helicopter was used to medevac wounded troops and that was considered pretty good. but there weren't there were any guns on the helicopters in korea? we had thousands of helicopters. then we tried to shoot at people from the air. when the russians supplied the north vietnamese with heat-seeking missiles round to air missiles the ground to air missile would go up and it would see the exhaust of the helicopter and fly into the exhaust of the turbine. and with great accuracy i might and after a while. the helicopter pilots just said we're not going to do this anymore. this is ridiculous. so they really stood down. i mean do you think that was that widespread? it was not widespread, but during the last operation that i had anything to do with which was a an operation up in the northern part of south vietnam they pretty much didn't want to do it and they were supposed to be flying in. south vietnamese troops to do operations against the ho chi minh trail. the south vietnamese t