This unsuccessful candidate for the 1974 Republican gubernatorial nomination in South Carolina sued CBS in 1984 for alleging that he concealed high estimates of enemy strength nearly twenty years earlier. At that time, forbade any operation by a unit smaller than 750 men as part of a conservative "war of attrition" policy, but, in 1968, he was succeeded by Creighton Abrams in his highest post. For 10 points—name this man 
This unsuccessful candidate for the 1974 Republican gubernatorial nomination in South Carolina sued CBS in 1984 for alleging that he concealed high estimates of enemy strength nearly twenty years earlier. At that time, forbade any operation by a unit smaller than 750 men as part of a conservative "war of attrition" policy, but, in 1968, he was succeeded by Creighton Abrams in his highest post. For 10 points—name this man who, for four years, was the top U.S. general in Vietnam.
This unsuccessful candidate for the 1974 Republican gubernatorial nomination in South Carolina sued CBS in 1984 for alleging that he concealed high estimates of enemy strength nearly twenty years earlier.
William Childs {Westmoreland}