Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Does that make it clear to anybody and everybody, including all the foreign press that may want to pick it up?

My concern for your health and knowledge of the physical stress that further duty would impose had prepared me for your decision.

I would hope that that statement could end the gossip and the rumors about General Westmoreland's future.

You leave it surer of purpose, richer in assets, and stronger in resolve to match challenge with achievement.