[Rarebooks] FS: General Westmoreland's Report on Vietnam INSCRIBED to one of the primary architects of America's involvement in the conflict

[Charles Agvent]

WESTMORELAND, William. REPORT ON THE WAR IN VIETNAM (AS OF 30 JUNE 
1968). Inscribed by William Westmoreland to William Bundy with TYPED 
LETTER SIGNED. (Washington): (Government Printing Office), [1969]. First 
Edition. SECTION I: REPORT ON AIR AND NAVAL CAMPAIGNS....; SECTION II: 
REPORT ON OPERATIONS IN SOUTH VIETNAM. Illustrated with photos and color 
folding maps. INSCRIBED by General William Westmoreland to William Bundy 
and dated March 1969: "To- Bill Bundy--/With appreciation of your/valued 
assistance and/counsel./Westy/W. C. Westmoreland." Westmoreland was 
commander of U.S. military operations in Vietnam from 1964 - 1968 and 
played an aggressive role in the escalation of ground troops in Vietnam. 
William Bundy had a long, distinguished service in the government in the 
CIA and in the Defense Department. He was appointed Assistant Secretary 
of State for Far Eastern Affairs in March 1964. His brother McGeorge was 
Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to Kennedy and Johnson 
from 1961-1966. Both are considered primary architects of America's 
involvement in Vietnam. In THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST, David Halberstam 
stated that during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, William 
Bundy's name "would probably be on more pieces of paper dealing with 
Vietnam over a seven-year period than anyone else's." Laid in are a 1969 
TYPED LETTER SIGNED to Bundy as "Westy" with a copy of the Index to the 
Report and eight photocopied pages of answers by Westmoreland to 
questions about Vietnam posed by a journalist. A fine association copy 
linking two important figures in America's Vietnam policy. Near Fine. 
(#012746)        $1,750.00

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