This conversation with the former commander of our troops in Vietnam touches

on that war, and on current matters such as SALT II, but it concentrates on the current ill health of the American military, which General Westmoreland links with the ill health of American democracy: "Now a principle of democracy is that for every right of citizenship there is a duty of citizenship. We inherited this principle from the British, who inherited it, I believe, from Roman law. Now it seems to me that in the last decade we have put inordinate attention on rights of citizenship. Rights, rights, rights. And in the process we have neglected duties of citizenship."