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...office in the buff-colored onetime French colonial-ministry building in Hanoi and contemplates his war maps, Vo Nguyen Giap today confronts a far more difficult situation. Unlike his ill-fated French predecessors, who were told to make do with the troops on hand, U.S. Commander William C. Westmoreland has been promised everything he needs to win the war-and has been getting it. Allied troops already outnumber Giap's forces in the South by over 4 to 1, and there are more to come: an estimated 100,000 more U.S. fighting men to be added...
...Among the 32 million alumni are Cabinet Members Orville Freeman and Stewart Udall, Actors James Stewart and Henry Fonda. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg rose from tenderfoot; so did the latest Gemini spacemen, Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General William Westmoreland are old Eagle Scouts, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk was once knot-tying champion of the Atlanta Council...
...others: General Duong Van Minh (Nov. 8, 1963), Prince Sihanouk (April 3, 1964), Henry Cabot Lodge (May 15, 1964), Nguyen Khanh (Aug. 7, 1964), Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr. (Aug. 14, 1964), General William Westmoreland (Feb. 19, 1965), the U.S. Fighting Man (April 23, 1965), Ho Chi Minh (July 16, 1965), the Military Buildup (Oct. 22, 1965), General Harold K. Johnson (Dec. 10, 1965), Man of the Year Westmoreland (Jan. 7, 1966), the U.S. Peace Offensive (Jan. 14, 1966), Dean Rusk (Feb. 4, 1966), Premier Nguyen...
...poverty funds for the year beginning July 1. One of Washington's smoothest Capitol Hill performers, Shriver adroitly combined a recitation of OEO's concrete achievements with candid admissions of its faults. His interrogators responded with such phrases as "a great public servant" and "a domestic Westmoreland." Even the abrasive committee chairman, Adam Clayton Powell, oozed approbation. "How many stars do we give the general?" asked Powell. "One, five, six? Let's give...
...year of the U.S. buildup has thus shattered Communist hopes of any early or easy victory, turned the tide of war and brought South Viet Nam's hopes of a better life closer to reality. As General Westmoreland puts it: "A shield has been created behind which our Vietnamese allies are not only regaining their physical security but also getting on with the vital task of building a nation...