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...forth in his first press conference by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, is a decision by the U.S. to turn the war gradually over to the South Vietnamese and to give them the firepower and backing to wage it effectively. The new man in Viet Nam is General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams, 53, who will succeed General William C. West moreland, soon to return to Washington as Army Chief of Staff...
...believe that the attacks were a costly military failure for the Communists. But they concede that Tet had severely damaging psychological effects on the U.S. pub lic In its aftermath, Johnson began his reexamination of the U.S. war effort. To help him conduct the review, he summoned General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, the tough, cigar-chomping tank commander who is the second-ranking...
...generalship can ultimately be assessed only by the requests and equivocations that for now are sealed in Pentagon filing cabinets. Strategy aside, however, his clearest single failure was not to have built the South Vietnamese army into a respectable fighting force. His deputy and possible successor, General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, 53, has made ARVN his principal concern for the past year...
...reminder five months after Pearl Harbor: "We have had no illusions about the fact that this is a tough job-and a long one." He added: "Responsibility never comes easy. Neither does freedom come free." As for the "open," "undisguised" North Vietnamese aggression, said Johnson, reverting to Abe, "the early pretense of attempting to fool some of the people some of the time had the cloak pulled from around it and even they have abandoned it, as have their spokesmen. Let us have no illusions, either...
...nobody outside that coterie knows what is on his mind, what questions he is asking or what he hopes to accomplish. According to one Cabinet member, the key men around him are newly installed Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, National Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a hawk from the first, has apparently lost much of his influence with the President because, one observer suggests, he has developed some doubts about the war. So has Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms, who made the mistake of questioning some of the rosy...