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...think the memo [from the producer of the documentary] was, 'Now all we have to do is break Westmoreland and we have the whole thing aced.' Well, the moral of that story is, don't send memos...
William C. Westmoreland, the former commander of U.S. ground forces in Vietnam, accused Wallace and CBS of reckless and malicious reporting in a 1982 documentary. "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception." The documentary charged that Westmoreland deliberately falsified enemy troop estimates to convince Washington that enemy forces were weaker than they actually were...
...week before the dispute was scheduled to go to the jury. Westmoreland abruptly dropped all charges, and Wallace--who interrogates interview subjects like a prosecuting attorney--escaped cross-examination...
...best-known Viet Nam figures still rate headlines. General William Westmoreland fought his war against CBS for 18 weeks in federal court, emerging with a stalemate at best; Henry Kissinger's voice remains influential in Washington; former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a law professor at the University of Georgia, was feted in the capital last year. Some of the home front's angriest protesters have reached a separate peace with society: Weather Undergrounders William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, fugitives until December 1980, are married and live in New York; last year Dohrn passed her bar exam. Other veterans...
...most changed of the five is Mike Wallace. The long months of the Westmoreland libel trial had their cost. Millions of dollars were at stake. But when the general and Wallace met inadvertently, side by side, at a courthouse urinal, Wallace had the feeling they were "partners in misery." When Wallace got the flu, the general's wife gave him aspirin and apple juice. Wallace also found it unsettling as a journalist to be "on the other side of the scrutiny," with television cameras pursuing him. He is having what he calls sober second thoughts: "My appetite for the hard...