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Vietnam war    1960s-1975

General William C. Westmoreland   1914-2005

President Johnson [ right ]

With William C. Westmoreland [ center ]

Date taken: 1968

Photograph: Stan Wayman

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General William C. Westmoreland    1914-2005

Gen. William C. Westmoreland

commanded United States forces

in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/international/asia/19westmoreland.html

Westmoreland

commanded U.S. troops

in South Vietnam

as the U.S. military presence

grew from about 20,000 advisers

in early 1964

to 500,000 troops in 1968.

Facing a confounding enemy,

a fearful public

turning rapidly hostile

and an undependable ally

in the South Vietnamese government,

Westmoreland came to personify

the military establishment

against which a generation

rebelled.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/18/
AR2005071801713.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/
world/asia/vietnam-war-nuclear-weapons.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/
books/review/hue-1968-vietnam-mark-bowden.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/
opinion/sunday/david-and-goliath-in-vietnam.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/
opinion/johnson-westmoreland-and-the-selling-of-vietnam.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/world/asia/
gen-vo-nguyen-giap-dies.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/
international/asia/19westmoreland.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/18/
AR2005071801713.html

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4760273 - July 19, 2005

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