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...previous evening, the President had met with Lodge, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, General William Westmoreland and Press Secretary Bill Moyers at Malacanang to discuss a side trip to Viet Nam. Westmoreland strongly recommended it as a morale booster for U.S. troops and the South Vietnamese as well. Johnson agreed, decided to schedule it the very next day, when he had a full program and nobody would suspect what was afoot. In the event of a security leak, the President said, the whole thing would be canceled-right up to the moment of landing...
...special Jeep fitted with a hand rail, Johnson and Westmoreland reviewed the troops, then proceeded to a flat-bed truck draped with blue-and-white bunting and fitted out as a speakers' stand. On the stand were Ky, Thieu and Lodge, who had arrived earlier. Before he began to speak, Johnson handed out three Distinguished Service Crosses, a Navy Cross (the nation's second highest decorations, after the Medal of Honor) and a Silver Star to five...
Sweating heavily, with both temperature and humidity in the 80s, Johnson peeled off his jacket, self-consciously patted his paunch, then sprang another surprise. He presented Westmoreland with a Distinguished Service Medal "for his courage, for his leadership, for his determination, and for his great ability as a soldier and as a patriot." Like the good soldier he is, the general betrayed no surprise, did not even turn his head when he heard the news. "American fighting men," concluded the President, "you have the respect, you have the support, you have the prayers of a grateful President...
...counter the plan, General William Westmoreland ordered a massive spoiling operation. It was called Operation Hastings, and it involved nine battalions of U.S. Marines, the largest number ever thrown into any combat in Viet Nam, together with sizable South Vietnamese army and marine units. When it got under way fortnight ago, the total allied strike force numbered 11,000 men. It was a daring, defiant and, by its very nature, often disorderly operation. Into the dense river valleys and high mountains, marines were lifted by helicopter to begin a sweep through a 300-mile crescent of land, destroying Communists...
Guitars & Tennis Rackets. Unable to view or even get close to the battlefield itself (unlike Westmoreland, who tours his commands four times a week), Giap must rely on reports from his commanders in the field that he cannot check -which probably leads to a rosier picture of the war than is justified by facts. While Hanoi, thanks to the careful targeting of the U.S. bombers, as a population center is probably safer than any place in South Viet Nam today, its atmosphere is hardly conducive to clearheaded armchair generalship. Bomb shelters are everywhere: at 8-ft. intervals between sidewalks...