by Lewis Sorley
57 McChristian, Westmoreland vs. CBS Microfiche File, p. 9030, USAWC Library.
58 McChristian interview, 26 April 1999.
59 Roth, The Juror and the General, pp. 127, 128. "Years later," wrote Harold Ford, "Graham admitted to George Allen that 'of course' he had not believed MACV's 300,000 figure but had defended it because it was 'the command position.'" Ford, CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers, p. 94. Discussing these matters in a 29 April 1995 interview, General Bruce Palmer Jr. commented that "Danny Graham was a fraud."
60 Stipulation of Dismissal, U.S. District Court, 17 February 1985, Westmoreland vs. CBS Microfiche File, USAWC Library.
61 Letter, Westmoreland to Editor, American Spectator, 19 February 1987, Box 19, WPSCL.
62 Speech, "David vs. Goliath," 1985, Box 49, WPSCL.
63 Editorial, "A General Surrenders," New York Times (19 February 1982).
64 Roth, The Juror and the General, p. 299.
65 As quoted in Brewin and Shaw, Vietnam on Trial, p. 355.
66 As shown in A&E "Biography: General Westmoreland," 28 February 1995. Transcript in Box 58, WPSCL.
67 George Crile III, "The Westmoreland Episode: Who Won?" International Platform Association Convention, c. 1987, Box 19, WPSCL.
68 Westmoreland, "A Case for Press Responsibility," Mercer Law Review (Spring 1987), p. 775.
69 Wallace, Between You and Me, p. 203.
30. DUSK
1 Beschloss, "Not the President's Men," New York Times Book Review (5 August 2007), p. 10.
2 Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports, p. 565 of the 1980 Dell paperback edition.
3 Atkinson, Long Gray Line, p. 408.
4 Ward Just interviewed James Ford, the Cadet Chaplain at West Point, who had been chosen for that post when Westmoreland was Superintendent. "There are two boats which are sinking today," said Ford in 1970, "the military and the church, and I have got a foot in both." Just asked him whether there would be a statue of Westmoreland at the Military Academy. "'No, probably not,' Ford said sadly." Military Men, pp. 43, 45.
EPILOGUE
1 Quotation is from Alan Levy, "Two Stars on the Fly," Courier-Journal Magazine (28 February 1960), USMA Archives.
2 As quoted in ibid.
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