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...officials have been concerned that the honky-tonk establishments (bearing such names as Eve, Blue Angel and the Bunny Club) are making tawdry neon jungles of such once elegant neighborhoods as the Rue Catinat of Graham Greene's The Quiet American. In March of 1966, General William Westmoreland, aware that the off-duty activities of U.S. troops were beginning to alienate sensitive Vietnamese, initiated Operation Moose (Move Out of Saigon Expeditiously), a realistic attempt to deal with the problem by reducing the American presence in the city. Under Operation Moose, Saigon has been declared off-limits to combat soldiers...
...outgoing Secretary and the military commanders also clashed last spring over the extent of a troop increase. McNamara was successful in persuading the President to give General Westmoreland only a fraction of the new troops he wanted for 1968, thereby avoiding a call-up of the reserves...
During this controversy, however, McNamara further jeopardized his relations with the military by openly criticizing the manpower efficiency of Westmoreland's command in Vietnam. He forced the U.S. commanders in Vietnam to increase the percentage of troops in the field, while cutting the number needed for non-combat operations...
Along with General William Westmoreland and his deputy, Ambassador Robert Komer, chief of the pacification effort, Bunker brought home a message not of a clearly foreseeable end to the war but of heartening movement toward that end. "I have never been more encouraged in my four years in Viet Nam," said Westmoreland, who, with his wife and daughter, spent the week as a guest at the White House...
...meanwhile, does not intend to increase projected force levels in Viet Nam but will concentrate on honing its present commitment to maximum efficiency. Westmoreland's only significant request was to continue bombing the North without any extended pause. He compared the war to a knitted sweater, stretched and worn until the threads have grown thin. "In time," he said, "it will unravel. It is difficult to forecast when it will unravel...