Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uppermost levels of the Administration and the Pentagon, where optimism has been endemic from the war's earliest days, officials were still trying to find something comforting in the recent Communist Tet offensive despite all of the evidence to the contrary. Vice President Hubert Humphrey declared that the Saigon regime "if anything has been strengthened by the attack," and on TV the U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, Ellsworth Bunker, in effect agreed. Despite some qualifications made by both men, such statements sounded absurd (see THE WORLD...
...contrast, middle-and lower-echelon officials at the State Department, the Pentagon and U.S. headquarters in Saigon voiced profound pessimism. They were dismayed by the uncertain performance of the South Vietnamese government, dejected by the demoralization of a populace suddenly feeling even less secure than before, disappointed by the failure of U.S. intelligence in anticipating the scope of the Communist move at a time when such attacks clearly should have been anticipated. No one of course believed that half a million U.S. troops could be defeated by the enemy in Viet Nam; but there was considerable fear that they...
...short, the President is sticking with the formula that he has applied all along: more of the same. Last week the Pentagon announced that its April draft would total 48,000 men, including 4,000 for the Marines-the biggest one-month call-up since October 1966. For all of 1968, inductions are expected to total 302,000 men, an increase of more than 70,000 over last year. In addition, there were reports that 40,000 or more reservists would be called, that 130,000 would be put on special alert and that the President would mobilize some National...
...North Vietnamese. McNamara then released a highly condensed version of his testimony that was hotly criticized by Chairman J. William Fulbright on the grounds that it omitted anything that would damage the Administration's case. The committee's threat to publish the entire transcript prompted the Pentagon to release all but 250 censored words at week's end. Many questions about the incidents of August 1964 still remained unanswered, and many more were raised...
...lookouts, and kept closing, despite warning shots. The battle was on. By the time it was over, one boat was dead in the water and presumed sinking; two others were damaged by F-8 Crusader jets, called in from the U.S. aircraft carrier Ticonderoga. Maddox suffered minimal damage. The Pentagon has pictures of the action, and no one questions this part of the story. The destroyer Turner Joy, a 2,850-tonner, was sent to reinforce Maddox, and the patrol-now known grandiloquently as Task Group 72.1-went on as before...