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Your cover story on General Westmoreland [May 5] succinctly captured the whole sense of our commitments and intentions for carrying that war to its inevitable conclusion. Had Johnson thus forcefully and unmistakably phrased our goals long ago, we would now be much closer to a victory, with no nation unaware of our national resolve...
...beneficial side effects of our military victory there, but the truth is that Southeast Asia is still strategically a vital region in our national defense structure and must be defended. To that selfish but important end, I earnestly suggest that the nation get on with the job of supporting Westmoreland, whose interpretation of his assignment richly deserves a return salute from the nation whose interests he so nobly defends...
...have read considerable criticism of permitting General Westmoreland to appear in this country to give his estimate of how the war in Viet Nam is going. Isn't it better to listen to someone who knows what it is all about than to listen to those doves, who only think they know all about it, and most likely do not? We have permitted enough expression of disagreement about this war. After all, four different American Presidents have seen...
Last week President Johnson transferred the responsibility for the highly publicized rural pacification program in Vietnam from American civilians to General Westmoreland. His decision was apparently the result of the widespread feeling that the countryside at present is insufficiently secure from Viet Cong harrassment to make the program work. In addition, he probably wanted to speed the integration of South Vietnamese armed forces with American troops in holding down the fighting in areas that are to be rebuilt...
...North, twelve days after the battle for the valley had been joined, the Communists had withdrawn into Laos. The Marines counted 575 enemy bodies on the three hills and estimated that air and artillery had taken at least another 600 Communist lives-a "tremendous" toll, said General William Westmoreland, who visited the battlefield. "I don't think the battle is necessarily over," he added. "I anticipate further fighting in the area...