Paul Harkins

The USMACV commander Paul Harkins and U.S. Ambassador Frederick Nolting in particular continued to assure Washington that all was going well.

Paul Harkins, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam. In June 1964 Westmoreland replaced Harkins, and he would hold the top post in Vietnam for the next four years. When, in the spring and summer of 1965, Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson began sending U.S. ground forces…