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...Thank you for choosing General Westmoreland as Man of the Year [Jan. 7]. It is the greatest tribute anyone has paid our men fighting in Viet Nam. I look on it as TIME'S thank-you to the men dying for our lives...
More Hats than Hedda. In the command he inherited, Westmoreland wears more hats than Hedda Hopper...
Work like the Devil. To keep this vast establishment operating, Westmoreland heeds-and invariably exceeds-the advice he gives newcomers to Viet Nam: "Work like the very devil. A seven-day, 60-hour week is the very minimum for this course." Rising at 6:30 in his two-story French villa, Westmoreland does 25 push-ups and a few isometric exercises, usually breakfasts alone (his family, along with 1,800 other dependents, was ordered out of the country by the President last February, is now in Honolulu). At his desk by 7:30, he rarely leaves it before nightfall, even...
...General Westmoreland tries valiantly to meet as many of his men as he possibly can. Wherever he goes, he reminds them that Viet Nam is not only a military operation, but a "political and psychological" struggle as well. "In this war," says Major General Lewis W. Walt, who reports to Westmoreland as Marine commander in Viet Nam, "a soldier has to be much more than a man with a rifle or a man whose only objective is to kill. He has to be part diplomat, part technician, part politician-and 100% a human being." In a war in which...
...Point officer worrying about growing corn for peasants!" Westmoreland, who is so gung-ho a West Pointer that he looks well-pressed in swimming trunks, does worry. "Today's soldier," he says, "must try to give, not take away...