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...wake of Westmoreland's visit, Administration spokesmen are pointedly leaving the door open to the possibility of further air raids. Among the possible targets are the remaining MIG bases, particularly Phuc Yen; two big power plants near Hanoi; and, above all, the Haiphong waterfront, through which 70% of the North's war supplies are funneled...
First at the Table. In the debate that raged last week, the President and Westmoreland had their defenders. Georgia's Senator Richard Russell complained: "You can't please some people. If the President brings the general home to report on the war, that's propaganda in their minds. If he doesn't bring him home, there's a credibility gap." Said Humphrey: "Dissent must be responsible, and we must have the equal right to state our position...
Notable Absentee. On last week's visit, before he addressed Congress, Westmoreland spent three hours briefing the President and his top advisers on the war. He answered questions on enemy supplies and strategy, the pacification program and the tense situation along the DMZ, where 36 North Vietnamese battalions were poised for a fight. Undoubtedly, the question of U.S. manpower was also raised, and whether to increase it from the 475,000-man level now projected for year's end. Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, whose inside information on the war has proved highly accurate in the past...
...Westmoreland had had no advance warning that he would be asked to speak to a joint meeting of Congress until after he arrived in the U.S. But, in soldierly fashion, he drafted a reserve speech for any eventuality. President Johnson was in Germany when the general gave his talk at the A.P. luncheon, but everybody assumed he had read it in advance. He had not. But, especially in view of the uproar, he did have a look at the congressional speech. With his aides, Johnson watched it on television at the White House...
...Levels. It was a speech particularly attuned to its audience. Westmoreland noted that "I have seen many of you in Viet Nam during the last three years"-and might have added that a good number of those who saw the battleground at first hand came away supporters of the U.S. effort there. He declared that after three years of the closest study, "I have seen no evidence that this is an internal insurrection. I have seen much evidence to the contrary-documented by the enemy himself-that it is aggression from the North...