GENERAL WESTMORELAND'S "TRUCE" WITH THE WHITE
HOUSE
By Dick Roberts
On July 14, Lyndon Johnson held a Washington news conference with the top U.S. military commanders in Vietnam.
The New York Times reported that "As the President spoke, he looked across from his arm chair to a sofa on which Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara sat with Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commander of American forces in Vietnam."
The following conversation took place: