Different from Garfinkle's point of view, history professor, Melvin Small, disputes with the author about the antiwar movement being a significant factor on the Vietnam War policies that contributed to the end of the war by several reasons. The first reason of the antiwar movement was the pressure it caused on Presidents Nixon's and Johnson's foreign policies. Professor Small explains how antiwar protests like the march on the Pentagon in October 1967 and 1969 affected the Johnson administration that led to the production of the Public Relations Campaign that was associated with the public's reaction to the Tet offensive. Likewise, Nixon's proposal for Operation Duck Hook, a plan to bombard North Vietnam if they did not agree to Washington's
