Many Democrats in the legislature turned against Johnson's war. Some scholars attribute this conflict to the growing number of anti-war voters as the reason Johnson's own party turned against him, while other scholars like EM Schreiber, Burstein, and Freudenburg cite the numerous deaths of soldiers Americans in combat. A Democrat named Eugene McCarthy called the entire Vietnam War a “mistake” and described the Johnson administration as “misguided.” McCarthy decided to run for president, but lost in the primaries by a narrow margin to Johnson, further indicating that the anti-war movement was gaining significant momentum. Things were only beginning to get worse as the Tet Offensive and the Mai Lai Massacre overshadowed the propaganda speeches of Westmoreland and President Johnson. The media was once a key ally of the Johnson administration at the start of the war, now completely opposed to American involvement. Media outlets such as Life magazine began showing photos of dead Americans in almost every issue. In February 1968, influential CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, returning from Saigon, informed Americans on his nightly broadcast that the Vietnam War could not be won. Leaks from within the White House haven't helped Johnson's strategy either; The New York Times reported General Westmoreland's request for 206,000 additional troops. In August 1968, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 10,000 anti-war protesters gathered and were confronted by an equipped police force. The repression against the demonstrators was broadcast live on television. The protests showed that the United States was experiencing deep social unrest. T...... middle of paper...... uh, EM. “Anti-war protests and American public opinion on the war in Vietnam.” The British Journal of Sociology 27, no. 2 (1976): 225-236. Small, Melvin, William D. Hoover and Charles DeBenedetti. “3.” In Give Peace a Chance: Exploring the Anti-Vietnam War Movement: Essays from the Charles DeBenedetti Memorial Lecture. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1992. 90-95. Verba, Sidney, Richard A. Brody, Edwin B. Parker, Norman H. Nie, Nelson W. Polsby, Paul Ekman, and Gordon S. Black. “Public Opinion and the Vietnam War.” The American Political Science Review 61, no. 2 (1967): 317-333. Wagaman, J. Brian. “Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America's Hearts and Minds.” The Journal of Popular Culture 37, no. 4 (2004): 746-748. Wells, Tom. The War Within: America's Battle Against Vietnam. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994.