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“Four decades after the fact, Gen. Weyand drew
attention for statements he reportedly made in 1967
expressing doubts about U.S. prospects for success in
the war. He was a top commander in Vietnam then and
told two prominent journalists, R.W. Apple Jr. of The
New York Times and Murray Fromson of CBS News,
confidentially that he thought the war had reached an
impasse.

According to Fromson, in a 2006 New York Times opinion
article, Gen. Weyand was the unnamed source in a Times
story by Apple on Aug. 7, 1967, that suggested victory
in Vietnam might have been “beyond reach.” Fromson, who
also reported on the general’s doubt, wrote that Gen.
Weyand released him from the confidentiality agreement
after the 2005 death of Gen. William C. Westmoreland,
who had been commander in Vietnam at the time of Gen.
Weyand’s comments.”

By Emily Langer