Westmoreland

[ west-mawr-luhnd, -mohr- ]

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William Childs [chahyldz], 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.

He kept it a secret, but things worsened in 1984 when Gen. William Westmoreland filed a $120 million libel suit against CBS.

Westmoreland and his wife sent Wallace flowers and eventually dropped the suit.

Westmoreland eventually brought a $120 million libel lawsuit against CBS for the way he was portrayed in the special.

Gen. William C. Westmoreland   Wallace interviewed Gen. William Westmoreland as part of a CBS documentary on Vietnam.

A libel suit that Westmoreland famously filed against CBS, which made the claim, was settled out of court.

Young master is gone to Westmoreland, I hear, to a wedding at some nobleman's house there.

William Booth, who was a planter of considerable means in Westmoreland County at this time, was probably the father of this youth.

Thomas Thompson was a well known physician of Westmoreland County.

The Beales were a prominent family in Richmond and Westmoreland counties.

Miss Galindo was the daughter of a clergyman in Westmoreland.

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