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Word of the attack was flashed from the remote outpost to Saigon, thence to Pacific Command Headquarters in Honolulu, the Pentagon and the White House. At his villa in Saigon, General Westmoreland awakened two house guests, both members of the visiting entourage of White House Aide McGeorge Bundy. The three hurried to Westmoreland's headquarters, two blocks away. There they joined Bundy, Ambassador Taylor and other top U.S. officials for an emergency early-morning conference. Their recommendation to Washington: strike back. A few hours later, when Westmoreland inspected the damage at Pleiku and flew to a field hospital where...
...give the U.S. more flexibility in Viet Nam, Johnson ordered all 1,819 dependents of Government and military personnel out of the country-a move long opposed by Taylor and Westmoreland. "We have no choice now," explained the President, "but to clear the decks and make absolutely clear our continued determination to back South Viet Nam in its fight to maintain its independence...
Most of the dependents were reluctant to leave. "I don't like it. I like to be with my husband," said Mrs. Maxwell Taylor. But she, as well as Westmoreland's wife and three children, was ticketed for departure along with the rest. "We don't want to go," said Westmoreland's 16-year-old daughter Katherine as she bade friends farewell at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport. When a teen-aged acquaintance taunted Katherine that the move was her father's fault, she bristled: "It is not. It's the fault...
...25th Hour. General Westmoreland, a brilliant "book" soldier, has been learning that lesson since he reached Saigon in August. A lean, greying six-footer, "Westy" was first captain of cadets at West Point (1936), saw World War II combat in Tunisia, Sicily, at Utah Beach on Dday. During the Korean War, he led the tough 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. A bird colonel at 30, he became the youngest major general in the Army in 1956. Max Taylor, the Army's Chief of Staff, pinned his second star on him. As superintendent of West Point, Westmoreland helped...
...While Westmoreland was commanding the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky., in 1958, he led a routine paratroop drop that turned to tragedy when the winds shifted. Five men were dragged to their death, one when the wind caught his grounded chute and swept him over a cliff. Westmoreland pitched in to help the wounded, from that day on refused to give the go-ahead for a drop until he had jumped first and had time to gauge the wind...