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When word of McNamara's statement reached Westmoreland, the general was hopping mad. Having returned to the U.S. to attend the funeral of his 81-year-old mother in Columbia, S.C., he flew up to Washington to confer with the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon. He was barely able to conceal his anger over the suggestion that U.S. forces were not being used at full efficiency. It seemed he was taking a bum rap so the President and McNamara could hold down the budget deficit and avert a bigger tax increase...
...first time since Westmoreland was dispatched to Viet Nam more than three years ago that he has come anywhere near public disagreement with his civilian bosses. Concerned, the President called him to the White House for a harmony session. With McNamara present, he assured Westmoreland of his continued esteem and told him he would send as many troops as was feasible...
When the private parley was over, the President summoned newsmen to the handsome second-floor sitting room of the White House for the first news conference ever held there. On a couch before one of the gracefully arched windows sat General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Westmoreland and McNamara. On a plush easy chair alongside the couch sat the President. When the audience of reporters was assembled, there ensued an extraordinary tableau. Whether or not it figures in future histories of Southeast Asia, it should certainly merit a mention in some Harvard Business School study of executive technique...
...troops that General Westmoreland needs and requests," the President said, "will be supplied. General Westmoreland feels that is acceptable, General Wheeler thinks that is acceptable, and Secretary McNamara thinks that is acceptable. Is that not true, General Westmoreland...
...agree, Mr. President," Westmoreland replied...