Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheduled to come to trial until fall, but both sides are already in full cry. Last week Westmoreland held his third press conference on the dispute to brandish a 5-Ib. packet of testimony, which he said debunks the network's January 1982 documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. CBS hit back at a news conference 20 minutes later, 100 yards away in the same Washington hotel, with its own 1¼lb. sheaf of affidavits. Neither side uncovered a "smoking gun," but each embarrassed the other, CBS by releasing accusations from Westmoreland's aides, the general...
...Vietnam: A History, Karnow...
...reading them in the bathtub. More politically controversial subjects, on the other hand, seem out of place here; Manchester brushes over them in his desire to blame no one. Yes, Kennedy sent troops into the Bay of Pigs, but military advisors had misled him; and he sent more to Vietnam, but planned to recall them by 1965. Even more disturbing, however, are the intensely personal moments Manchester forces us to share, such as Kennedy's reaction to the death of his infant son Patrick. These seem like intrusions on sacred ground, and leave one with the embarrassment of an unwilling...
...helped develop PBS's healthy roster of news programs, including the MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour, Inside Story, Frontline and the critically acclaimed 13-part documentary series Vietnam: A Television His tory. NBC News, by contrast, has been losing ground. Two weeks ago, the brilliant but un profitable Overnight left the air. Today, once the sunrise champ, now has to fight the CBS Morning News for second place, be hind ABC's Good Morning America...
...distorting effect of the confrontational style was also evident in a 1982 CBS documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, which alleged that General William Westmoreland, when commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam, was part of a "conspiracy" to mislead the public and perhaps President Johnson about the strength of enemy forces. Correspondent Mike Wallace, the most feared questioner on 60 Minutes, challenged Westmoreland on events more than 15 years old and reduced the general to flustered confusion. But after an internal investigation, CBS concluded that the charge of conspiracy was "inappropriate," material supportive of Westmoreland...