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...South Viet Nam-the 14th such meeting in Hawaii since December 1961. At a working lunch, the VIPs brought swimming trunks to the Navy Officers' Club on shimmering Keehi Lagoon, left their "classified" folders on the tables while they enjoyed a quick dip. Lieut. General William Westmoreland, the newly designated U.S. military chief in Saigon, gave a virtuoso display on one water ski. During off-hours, Rusk and McNamara relaxed at Felt's flower-decked Makalapa Guest House, while Lodge could be seen sipping coffee in splendid isolation at Waikiki Beach's Royal Hawaiian Hotel...
...join you in your tribute to an outstanding soldier and great American, Lieut. General William C. Westmoreland [May 8]. Having served for more than two years as "Westy's" executive officer with the 34th Field Artillery, 9th Infantry Division, both at Fort Bragg and in North Africa and Sicily, I can testify to the fact that he is a leader who brings to our Viet Nam campaign soldiering that inspires the men who serve with him, and a wisdom in war which in my opinion is unsurpassed. In World War II, his officers and men called him "Superman...
Where most of Harkins' army career was spent in administrative jobs, Westmoreland is an elite combat officer. A South Carolina native, he attended The Citadel for a year, switched to West Point and graduated in 1936. Westmoreland was first captain during his senior year, Sunday-school teacher to the faculty children, and apparently something of a ladies' man. His left cheek bore a scar from a boyhood automobile accident, but Westmoreland did not discourage the idea among the local girls that he acquired the wound in a duel...
...Westmoreland commanded an artillery battalion in the 1942 invasion of North Africa, fought in Tunisia and Sicily. On D-day he landed on Utah beach as executive officer of the 9th Infantry Division. After the war, he served as chief of staff of the famed 82nd Airborne Division, led airborne troops in the Korean war, at 43 became the youngest major general in the Army, commanded the 101st Airborne Division, served as superintendent of West Point...
...South Viet Nam as Harkins' deputy, Westmoreland works seven days a week, gets out into the field at least twice a week. Two weeks ago, he was fired on by snipers. His ability to get huge amounts of work out of his staff has come to be known as "the Westmoreland Stretch." There are those who think that the job of U.S. commander in South Viet Nam is an impossible one. It may be, under the present rules But there are also those who think that Westmoreland is one man who may achieve the impossible. Says onetime Army Deputy...