>> Was he or was he not a yes man? <<
Gen. Westmoreland ran his own NATO-style war, which was a dismal failure. LBJ couldn’t do much to change Westy’s approach. It was only when he was replaced by Gen. Abrams that we started seriously to win in VN.
Moreover, thanks to that winning strategy, and if it hadn’t been for Watergate, South Vietnam probably could have survived as an independent nation.
Bingo! The whole reason that the Left went after Nixon like they did is that they knew that if they took out Nixon, they'd win the war.
The "crimes" Nixon was accused of pale in comparison with Barry Obama's.