William Childs Westmoreland was a United States Army general,most notably the commander of United States forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1968 to 1972.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a patriot of the American Revolutionary War. A non-profit group,the organization promotes education and patriotism. Its membership is limited to direct lineal descendants of soldiers or others of the American Revolution era who aided the revolution and its subsequent war. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and have a birth certificate indicating that their gender is female. DAR has over 190,000 current members in the United States and other countries. The organization's motto is "God,Home,and Country".
The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a surprise attack on 30 January 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN),the United States Armed Forces and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. The name is the truncated version of the Lunar New Year festival name in Vietnamese,Tết Nguyên Đán,with the offense chosen during a holiday period as most ARVN personnel were on leave. The purpose of the wide-scale offensive by the Hanoi Politburo was to trigger political instability in a belief that mass armed assault on urban centers would trigger defections and rebellions.
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972. He was then Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 until his death in 1974.
The involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War began in the 1950s and greatly escalated in 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The U.S. military presence in Vietnam peaked in April 1969,with 543,000 military personnel stationed in the country. By the end of the U.S. involvement,more than 3.1 million Americans had been stationed in Vietnam,and 58,279 had been killed.
Westmoreland v. CBS was a $120 million libel suit brought in 1982 by former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General William Westmoreland against CBS,Inc. for broadcasting on its program CBS Reports a documentary entitled The Uncounted Enemy:A Vietnam Deception. Westmoreland also sued the documentary's narrator,investigative reporter Mike Wallace;the producer,investigative journalist and best-selling author George Crile,and the former CIA analyst,Sam Adams,who originally broke the story on which the broadcast was based.
Cao Văn Viên was a four-star army general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He rose to the position of Chairman of the South Vietnamese Joint General Staff. Considered one of "the most gifted" of South Vietnam's military leaders,he was previously called an "absolute key figure" and one of "the most important Vietnamese military leaders" in the U.S.-led fighting during the Vietnam War. Along with Trần Thiện Khiêm he was one of only two four-star generals in the entire history of South Vietnam.
Helena Rebecca Hellwig Pouch was an American tennis player and served as the 18th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Wilma L. Vaught is a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general. She was the first woman to deploy with an Air Force bomber unit,and the first woman to reach the rank of brigadier general from the comptroller field.
The National Social Democratic Front,later named the Social Democratic Alliance,was a South Vietnamese political party which was effectively a federation of different groups,united by their anti-communist stance. Its chairman was Lt. Gen. Nguyễn Văn Thiệu,leader of South Vietnam from 1965–1975.
The order of battle for the Viet Cong concerned a contested American intelligence issue of the Vietnam War. Arising In the mid-1960s,its focus was the count of enemy combatants. Often called the order of battle controversy,the debate came to divide the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),and challenge military intelligence. The politics and strategy of the war became involved in the debate.
Catharine H. T. Avery was an American author,editor,and educator of the long nineteenth century. Of Revolutionary ancestry and hailing from Michigan,she was founder and regent of the Western Reserve Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR),of Cleveland,Ohio;Vice-president General of its National Society;and editor of the National Society's official organ,the American Monthly. She also served two years as a member of the Cleveland School Board,being the first woman in Ohio chosen to an elective office.
The Declaration of Honolulu,1966 was a communiquéand diplomatic proclamation acceded by foreign diplomats representing South Vietnam and the United States. The declaration asserted pro-democracy principles for South Vietnam while combating external aggression and insurgency by North Vietnam. The goals outlined at the conference were a cornerstone to US policy in Vietnam until 1969 when the incoming Nixon administration changed policies towards Vietnam.
Mary Parke Foster was the 3rd President General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and wife of John W. Foster,U.S. Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison.
Lynn Forney Young is an American civil leader and clubwoman. She was the 43rd President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution,serving from 2013 to 2016. As the organization's president general,she oversaw a $4 million restoration of DAR Constitution Hall,led the organization in setting a Guinness World Record for "most letters to military personnel collected in one month" with 100,904 letters to members of the United States Armed Forces,and met with Elizabeth II during an event to launch a project to digitize the Royal Archives of George III.
Ann Turner Dillon is an American clubwoman who served as the 44th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was the first woman from Colorado to be elected as the President General.
Elizabeth Newkirk Seimes served as the 27th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Florence A. Hague Becker,also known as Mrs. William A. Becker,was an American philanthropist and anti-communist activist who served as the 16th president general of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. As president general,she led the national society through the Great Depression,developing an employee retirement fund,restoring employee salaries to pre-Depression levels,and focusing on children's educational and nutritional needs. She was recruited by Congressman John W. McCormack to compile a report on Communist propaganda being distributed to American youth. She used her position to speak out against Communism and the Socialist Movement.
Grace Lincoln Hall Brosseau,also known as Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau,was an American writer and socialite who served as the 13th president general of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution from 1926 to 1929.
May Marie Erwin Talmadge was an American civic leader who served as the 19th president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was the first president general of the national society from the U.S. state of Georgia. Her administration led the Daughters of the American Revolution through World War II,donating money and resources to the American Red Cross. She attended the 1945 United Nations Conference of International Organization and was appointed by U.S. president Harry S. Truman to serve on the National Famine Emergency Council.
