After Tet, however, news anchor Walter Cronkite went on the air
and said for the first time that the conflict was“mired in stalemate.”.
By the latter half of the 20th century, month-first appears to have become standard for much of the country, as memorialized by the famous CBS news anchor,
Walter Cronkite, who signed off from every broadcast with“and that's the way it is,”
and then day of the week and the date, month first.