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Ramrod-straight and resolute as ever, General William Westmoreland went to the White House last week to be wafted into his new job as Army Chief of Staff. Here is how TIME'S White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey viewed the ceremony...
...Freedom was in jeopardy," said L.B.J., "and a struggling people had been brought almost to their knees by aggression-when William Westmoreland was called to urgent duty. His mission was to deny aggression its conquest. It was a mission simple enough to state. But to execute it, he had to fight the most complex war in American history. Now we are stirred by the hope of peace-a stable peace in which the people in Southeast Asia can live out their lives and develop their institutions as they will...
...American involve ment in Viet Nam: We cannot make our local allies worth defending without taking them over completely and becoming blatantly colonial, one thing is even-clearer than the improbability of the political escalation required by the Corson solution, it is the probability of continued failure of the Westmoreland tactic. Since the former won't be used and the latter won't work, withdrawal, while no "answer" either, will force the Viet- namese to solve their own problems and will serve notice on the world that the U.S. will no longer let incompetent allies get fat while...
...General William Westmoreland who decided that the base would have to be held. A withdrawal from North Vietnamese encirclement, difficult at best, would not only be a major political and psychological setback for the U.S., he reasoned, but would leave Quang Tri province and the cities of I Corps open to North Vietnamese attack. Before committing the U.S. fully to Khe Sanh's defense, however, President Johnson went to the extraordinary length of extracting a written pledge from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that it could be held...
...everyone expected. The attack never came, and finally, in late March, the pressure eased. The bothersome question remained of whether Khe Sanh had been a massive diversion to pin down U.S. troops and make it easier for General Giap to attack Vietnamese cities at Tet, or whether-as General Westmoreland insisted -Tet was the diversion and Khe Sanh the main target...