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CHESTNUT HILL--General William C. Westmoreland told an enthusiastic Boston College audience of nearly 400 last night that, in many respects, the United States did not really lose the Vietnam...
When Dean Rusk was Secretary of State during the Viet Nam years, he angered the press by asking a persistent reporter, "Whose side are you on?" In a deposition he made in General Westmoreland's libel suit against CBS (it was not quoted directly in court), Rusk was asked whether the Johnson Administration deliberately minimized the war's bad news and emphasized the good. His answer...
Mayor Ed Koch led the procession, pushing the wheelchair of Long Island Assemblyman John Behan, 40, who lost both legs to a land mine near Da Nang. General William Westmoreland marched for a bit, then dropped out to watch from the reviewing stand, but finally rejoined the straggle in the street (against the advice of police) when passing Army vets invited him with the call, "Westy! Westy!" Said he: "I love these guys, and I am going to march with them." Spectators and veterans repeatedly came together in spontaneous embraces. After bussing a woman of about 60, Brooklynite Mark Carraway...
...only am I confident. I think Gen. Westmoreland was satisfied that we were wrong to win not only on malice, but on truth as well...
From what I've seen, both in editorials and in editorial cartoons, and in the comments immediately after the Westmoreland withdrawal, the impression I got was that everybody understood that Westie decided that discretion was the better part of valor and he decided to cut his losses...