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...guns lined up behind the plan. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird announced that he had ordered all services to begin the "zero draft" campaign immediately; Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland vowed that "unnecessary irritants and unattractive features of Army life" will be eliminated as quickly as possible; and Laird's top manpower assistant, Roger T. Kelley, spent 90 minutes briefing newsmen on the program...
...make the plan work, Westmoreland said, the current rate of recruitment and re-enlistment must be at least douled and possibly tripled. This will be difficult without the threat of the draft as an inducement to potential volunteers. At present, the Army figures that only about 40% of its volunteers would have enlisted if they had not feared that they would be drafted anyway...
Differing Mores. Facing that problem, Westmoreland told a Washington meeting of the Association of the U.S. Army that young men are readily "turned off" by Army exercises that seem to have no "perceivable need." He has already instructed commanders to avoid any make-work assignments. Noting that the average age of soldiers in the Army today is less than 23, he conceded that the "social mores" of many of them differ sharply from those of older officers. He suggested that some of these differences can be accommodated by the services. Aides explained that the Army will permit dissent...
American commander William C. Westmoreland and President Lyndon B. Johnson agreed. Charges of cowardice (usually baseless) against segregated black troops from World War I to Korea were laid to rest. Concluded the Reader's Digest: the American Negro has earned his red badge of courage...
...Viet Nam War. Then, in 1967, O'Neill made a hawkish speech at Boston College, his alma mater, to a hostile young audience that included two of his children. Irked by one student questioner, he exploded: "I've had 43 briefings on the war from all the experts?Johnson, Westmoreland, Abrams, Bunker, Lodge, Rusk, McNamara?and I think I know more