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Digital Object Identifier
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363-04756
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Title
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Taylor's Farewell: Pleasure and Sadness
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Description
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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about Maxwell Taylor, the US Ambassador to South Vietnam, and his exit from South Vietnam, page 4
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Transcript
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New York Herald Tribune
Taylor's Farewell: Pleasure and Sadness
By Beverly Deepe
A Special Correspondent
SAIGON.
Maxwell
D.
Ambassador
Taylor bade farewell in Saigon
yesterday, but his message of
the day was one of welcome-
to 3,700 paratroopers of the
101st "Screaming Eagles" Air-
borne Division, including his
son, Capt. Thomas Happer
Taylor, 31, a member of the
division.
The ambassador's particular
"pleasure and some sadness"
in his welcome was because of
his association with the divi-
sion. The last time a Scream-
ing Eagle faced an enemy bul-
let was just over 20 years ago
when with Gen. Taylor in
command, the 101st began the
conquest of Normandw. Later,
it took part in the bloody de- Nam, together with the Presi-
fense of Bastogne.
"The 101st will write new
pages in the history of this
war," said the Ambassador, "a
new war, a new kind of war.
"You will meet an enemy
who is shrewd and well-
trained and has the guile of
the North merican Indian. In
the days ahead, if the Viet
Cong should prove
midable enemy, you can al-
ways rember our days at
Bastogne."
AMeanwhile, it
a for
was an-
nounced yesterday that the
arrival of the nearly 4,000
members of the 101st is not a
part of the build-up cited by
President Johnson in his
Wednesday address to the na-
tion. In addition to the 75,-
000 troops currently in Viet
dent's planned addition of
50,000 and the newly arrived
101st, U. S. strength will total
129,000.
Ambassador Taylor will de-
part from Saigon today, "but
not all the Taylor will be leav-
ing Viet Nam," he said. His
son, who arrived three weeks
ago with an advance element,
is a member of the division
intelligence staff.
Yesterday the Ambassador
said goodby to the Saigon dip-
lomatic corps and members
of the American community
prior to the arrival of Henry
Cabot Lodge for his second
tour of duty. A few observers
recalled one of the speeches
newspaper reports that Sen.
Robert Kennedy, Defense Sec-
retary Robert McNamara and
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
had volunteered for the tough
assignment as ambassador.
"But I was chosen," he told
his audience. "I had that one
quality none of the others
possessed. I was expendable."
During 40 years in the
Army, Gen. Taylor had de-
voted his career to one objec-
tive: American victory in war.
In World War II and in Ko-
rea, he was to see the bitter-
est fighting. When he urged
the bombing of North Viet.
Nam, he saw as the objective
forcing the Communists to
the conference table.
Gen. Taylor made shortly
after arriving here one year
and three weeks ago.
After Korea, Gen. Taylor
He mentioned having read opposed sending American
troops to fight a ground war
i nAsia. But since his arrival
in Viet Nam he has seen a
buildup from 23,000 fighting
men to more than three times
that number. Now, with Presi-
dent Johnson's announcement,
U. S. forces will be more than
five times the total when the
his
Ambassador assumed
duties.
Long considered one of the
most politically astute of
American generals, Gen. Tay-
lor resign dein the late fifties
in protest against America's
super-reliance on nuclear
power. His book, "The Uncer-
tain Trumpet" was an attempt
to convince others-he did. By
1961, President Kennedy ap-
pointed him military repre-
sentative of the President and
a year later appointed him
Friday
chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.
But the increasing numbers
of American ground troops|
have yet to prove they can
defeat the guerrilla-subversive
in war.
On the political front, Gen.
Taylor consistently beseeched
Vietnamese statesmen, gener-
als, bureaucrats and religious
leaders to unify their efforts
for political stability. But
instead there was a succession
of coups, counter-coups, false-
coups and demi-coups and
constant intrigue.
Part of the problem was
considered to be the wide-
spread Communist penetration
within the national govern-
ment, police, armed forces,
student and religious group-
ings.
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Date
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1965
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Subject
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Taylor, Maxwell D. (Maxwell Davenport), 1901-1987; United States--Relations--Vietnam (Republic); Ambassadors
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Container
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B4, F6
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Format
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newspaper clippings
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
