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...Viet Nam veterans represented in Sculptor Frederick Hart's monument. Theresa C. Girardi Fond...
...White House ceremony in February 1968 to bid him farewell as Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, exhausted and anguished over the Viet Nam War, became so choked up that he could not speak. For the next 16 years McNamara remained speechless about that agonizing conflict, refusing to make any public statements. Last week, summoned to testify in General William Westmoreland's $120 million libel suit against CBS, McNamara finally broke his long silence. Even then, as he began to recall the controversies of the time, his raspy voice cracked once again, his lips trembled...
...emotions of the bitter Viet Nam era lived on in Room 318 of the U.S. courthouse in lower Manhattan last week, and so did the war's ambiguities. At issue was a 1982 CBS Reports documentary that accused Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, of participating in a "conspiracy" to understate the true strength of the enemy in order to make the war appear winnable. McNamara spoke emotionally in the general's defense. He stated that Westmoreland is "a person of tremendous integrity" who could never have lied to his superiors...
...Lyndon Johnson. Boies read back snippets from what McNamara had said at the time. In August 1967, for instance, he told a Senate committee that the war was "not a no-win program." When a reporter asked that same year if the U.S. was mired in a stalemate in Viet Nam, McNamara replied, "Heavens, no!" On the stand, he tried to qualify such declarations by insisting that while he had been pessimistic about winning the war militarily, he still held out hope for a political solution...
...because stashed away on the flip sides are entirely new songs unavailable elsewhere. Shut Out the Light, recorded for Born in the U.S.A. but weeded out in the final editing process, is simple, stark, folk-inflected and filled with a kind of cold-sweat compassion for its protagonist, a Viet Nam vet returning home. The lyrics are full of stabbing detail: this vet's wife "called up her mama to make sure the kids were out of the house/ She checked herself out in the dining room mirror/ And undid an extra button on her blouse." As in Ernest...