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...whose members, General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, was appointed last month as Westmoreland's deputy and likely successor...
Silenced by Events. For William Childs Westmoreland, 53, the visit to the U.S. coincided with a new notch-up in the war: the bombing of half a dozen formerly proscribed targets in the North, including two MIG bases. The Administration, which previously had minimized each increase in the war effort, now clearly signaled its determination to put every possible pressure on Hanoi. Among its critics, there was growing apprehension over the war's direction, duration and denouement-a fear that the U.S. and its antagonists were swiftly approaching the point where a little slip could mean...
...time being, though, the debate raged at such high-decibel levels that Westmoreland might well have yearned for the less complicated hostilities of the war zone during his visit. Almost from the moment he flew in from Hawaii to an Air Force base near West Point, he was caught in the political crossfire. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright charged that he had been brought back to "shut up" dissent on the war. The New York Post called his trip a "search-and-destroy" mission laid on by the President against the antiwar faction. Complained Minnesota...
Fraught with Hazards. It was against this background that Westmoreland returned to the U.S. In fact, a group of Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, had urged Johnson more than a year ago to bring the general home to address Congress on the war. The President demurred at the time. Last March, when Associated Press President Paul Miller asked Johnson during a luncheon whether it might be possible for Westmoreland to address the news services' annual luncheon, the answer was yes-if the exigencies of the war allowed...
...luncheon was held early last week (four days before the speech to Congress) at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria -a hotel Westmoreland had last visited in January 1964, when he called on "my friend, General Douglas MacArthur," for some advice just before leaving for Saigon. MacArthur told him: "This new assignment carries with it great opportunities, but it is also fraught with hazards...