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...fact is clear as a result of the challenge posed by the Tet offensive," General Westmoreland told the Associated Press Sunday: "The time has come for debating to end, for everyone to close ranks, roll up their (sic) sleeves and get on with the job." The General's decision to revive the venerable, but by no means honorable, American tradition of the Bloody shirt is sensationally illtimed...
...also happy to report that General Westmoreland has escaped Saigon safely to a windowless command center on Formosa where, incidentally, Chiang Kai-shek has offered 33,000 Nationalist Chinese troops for use in Vietnam...
There was a lot of stew in the days just after the attack. General Westmoreland got on the Armed Forces Vietnam network to tell us all that this was the greatest defeat that the enemy had ever suffered. Ambassador Bunker got on to tell us that American forces and their gallant allies were having their greatest victory. They even had a brief dub-in from President Johnson in Washington telling us that this was a great defeat for the Viet Cong and a victory for America and South Vietnam. And that this was an act of last desperation...
There was this marvelous juxtaposition. The Armed Forces Vietnam Network, which has a news broadcast for five minutes every hour on the hour, would come on first with this bland statement by General Westmoreland about the victory we are winning and how Saigon has now been completely retaken and that there are just pockets of resistance left. And that would be followed at the end of the news by an important anouncement to all American personnel: All American personnel are required to stay in their billets until further notice. There is a 24-hour curfew for all American personnel...
...reacting to its oppressor, "the establishment," and hurls hackneyed epithets ("mass media," "dying already half-dead social order") at whoever. "the establishment is." Even WGBH is part of the tyrannical "commercial complex." A column by "Jeremy" carries this irrationality to the extreme, blaming the war rhetoric of General Westmoreland and the new Defense Secretary, "Clark M. Gifford" (sic), on the Record-American...