Volume 23, Number 8 · May 13, 1976
Under Westy's Eyes
By Kevin Buckley
A Soldier Reports
by General William C. Westmoreland
Doubleday, 446 pp., $12.95
Soldiers in Revolt: The American Military Today
by David Cortright
Anchor Press/Doubleday, 317 pp., $7.95
There is an old army saying that an officer should never be seen pushing a baby carriage, carrying a large bundle under his arm, or holding an umbrella. William Westmoreland recalled this adage during a rainstorm on Guam in the spring of 1967 when he was amused to see a fellow general, from the air force, holding an umbrella over Lyndon Johnson's head as the president addressed a crowd of airmen. It is impossible to conceive of Westmoreland doing any of those things, or presenting himself in any pose except the most dignified, the most commanding.
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