0 - The Black Vault

T:E BDM CORPORATION
34. Johnson, p, 384.
35. Ibid., p., 385.
36. Ibid. p. 535.
37. Gravel Pentagon Papers, Vol. IV, p. 539.
38. Johnson, pp. 385-386 and General William C. Westmorelandrs PrivatcŽ
Papers on file at the Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept.
of the Army, Washington, D.C., See History File 1-29 Feb 1968.
39. Westmoreland, Ibid., see Historv File 1-29 Feb 1968.
40. Gravel Pentagon Papers, Vol. TV, pp, 539-51.6 gives a detaiied `esi-ription
of tn JCS decisionmaklýng pr'ocess on the emergency reinforcement
during Tet 1963.
41.. Ibid. pp. 542-543.,
42. Ibid. pp. 545-546.
43. See Don Oberdorfer, Tet! (New York:. Doubleday, 1971), pp. 172-173;
Johnson, pp.. 386 ancFd-9; Gravel Pentagon Papers, Vol IV, p, 542; John
B. Henry, II, "February 1968," Foreign Policy, Vol. 4 (Fall 1971), p.
9; and, Herbert Schandler, Unmaking of a President. Lyndon Johnson
and Vietnam (New Jersey. Princeton University Press, 1977), pp.
99-103, 109.
44. General Westmoreland's original request in response to Tet '68 was
about half of the 206,000 troop request that General Wheeler urged him
to ask for. General Wheeler's intent was to reccnstitute the sorely
depleted strategic reserve with about half of the total augmentation.
After he became Army Chief of Staff, General Westmoreland recounted
tne history of the memos and discussions on this issue and obtained
General Wheeler's initials on his memorandum fu, the record. See
Memorandum fcr the Reccrd foi 206,000 Troop Request in Feu"uarv 1968,
Separate folder, General Westmoreland's personal papers ';led in
Office of the ChieF of Military History, Washington, D.C.
45. Leslie H, Gelb with Richard K. Betts, The Irony of Vietnam: The
•ystem Workea (Washington. The Brookings Institution, 1979), pp.
173-174; and Henry, "Cebruary 1968," pp. 8, 13, 16-21.
46. Johnson, p. 393,
4I-