Word: abe
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...generalship can ultimately be assessed only by the requests and equivocations that for now are sealed in Pentagon filing cabinets. Strategy aside, however, his clearest single failure was not to have built the South Vietnamese army into a respectable fighting force. His deputy and possible successor, General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, 53, has made ARVN his principal concern for the past year...
...reminder five months after Pearl Harbor: "We have had no illusions about the fact that this is a tough job-and a long one." He added: "Responsibility never comes easy. Neither does freedom come free." As for the "open," "undisguised" North Vietnamese aggression, said Johnson, reverting to Abe, "the early pretense of attempting to fool some of the people some of the time had the cloak pulled from around it and even they have abandoned it, as have their spokesmen. Let us have no illusions, either...
...nobody outside that coterie knows what is on his mind, what questions he is asking or what he hopes to accomplish. According to one Cabinet member, the key men around him are newly installed Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, National Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a hawk from the first, has apparently lost much of his influence with the President because, one observer suggests, he has developed some doubts about the war. So has Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms, who made the mistake of questioning some of the rosy...
...sharpen coordination between the 55,000 U.S. combat soldiers and Marines counterpoised for the enemy offensive in the I Corps Area, General Westmoreland last week dispatched his deputy commander and likely successor in Viet Nam, General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams Jr., to Phu Bai to set up a forward command post. Known as "the fightin'est man" in the U.S. Army, the World War II armored-cavalry commander, a West Point classmate ('36) of Westy's, served as the Army's vice chief of staff before arriving in Viet Nam last May. When...
...Justice Abe Fortas observed that "someone might think it was a form of dissent to throw a rock through a window of the White House." Justice John Harlan pointed out that, rather than being superfluous, the ban on burning or destroying the cards might well be seen as a legitimate way for Congress to ensure that registrants carry their cards at all times. Most definite of all was Justice Hugo Black, who has long been known as an uncompromising foe of restrictions on free speech. Card burning did not seem to him to be covered by the First Amendment guarantee...