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...program was compelling in its indictment of the generals and politicians who valued good news more than unpleasant truth. General William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces after 1964, told the president and Congress in 1966 and 1967 that there was going to be progress in the war, and, by God, he saw to it there was progress--at least on paper, that is. The program depicted Westmoreland and the yes-men around him as malfeasors dedicated primarily to saving their own skins. The implications of their misdeeds, according to the documentary, were startling. "The fact is that we Americans...
...trust of the villagers if the war was to be won. Disillusionment set in when the Pentagon began stressing body counts and adopted what he calls a "strategy of attrition." He was especially incensed over the search-and-destroy missions ordered by General William C. Westmoreland. Corson argues that the missions not only failed to destroy the enemy but devastated the Vietnamese people. "I tried to convince them they were doing the wrong thing," he says. "I felt there was a pox on both houses: the South Viet Nam government and the Viet Cong. They were predators against the people...
Said Representative Jonathan Bingham of New York after attending a briefing by Haig: "It reminded me very much of the meetings I had with General William Westmoreland over Viet Nam. We start out with advisers and they turn into combat advisers and then into ground troops...
...recognition. The program then moved from Tosca to toe-tapping, as Gospel Superstar Betty Perkins swept onstage and picked up a microphone. The Philharmonic percussion section laid down a heavy beat, and Perkins brought the evening to a bluesy, rousing finale with three gospel songs by Joe K. Westmoreland...
...course, believe Americans are an oblivious people, who have simply cruised on and learned nothing. "We have no national memory," Lillian Hellman once told Gloria Emerson. "Maybe it's a mark of a young and vigorous people. I think we've already forgotten Viet Nam." When William Westmoreland, former U.S. commander in Viet Nam, appears on campuses these days, he finds "total change. Crowds are larger, open-minded. Now there's very little criticism, and mostly from professors." Of course, the kids Westmoreland is addressing would have been only about eight years old at the time...