him westmoreland reached the high levels he did including his assignment to vietnam but i think maxwell taylor and westmoreland didn't have a falling out. they had a divergence of view.. seems to be documentable that when the first ground forces came ashore marine elements in march of 1965, taylor had no advance notice they were coming and westmoreland knew that and didn't tell anyone and the white house knew that and didn't tell him and the pentagon knew that and didn't tell him. he was pretty marginalized by that point. that detailed analysis and evaluation of general tyler's popularity is a topic for the other day. he was in the against as well and i will leave it at that. take you very much for coming. it was a great pleasure. [applause]

but i think maxwell taylor and westmoreland had a diverging viewpoints. it seems to be documentable that when the first ground forces came ashore marine elements in march of 1965 as the ambassador had no advance notice they were coming westmoreland knew that and didn't tell amanda white house knew that and didn't tell him and the pentagon knew that and didn't tell him so he was marginalized by that point. their evaluation of general taylor is for another day. but he was in against as well and i will leave it at that. thank you very much for coming. [applause] >> you were watching booktv on c-span2. forty-eight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> i will talk about why i wrote the book and what i hoped to accomplish with this book. i wrote the book because our party is across roads. there is a division and going forward i believe we have to unite. as a matter of fact i extend on one of my fox interviews and invitations for karl rove and i to kiss and make up. we can go forward a united party. i do talk a lot about the cronyism especially

but stan maxwell taylor became army chief of staff and rescued westmoreland from the personnel mores making him his secretary of the general staff. two years later, hunting in the meantime been promoted to start rank, westmoreland was reported i.t. with commanded the 101st airborne division. things moved quickly for him after that. two years of the division commander for qualified to do three or send in a superintendent of the united states military academy at west point, then promotion to lieutenant general in six months in command of the 18th airborne corps just long enough to qualify for another promotions and thereafter. westmoreland was sent to vietnam in january 1964 as deputy to general paul harkins who was then commanding u.s. forces there. then in june 1964, westmoreland placed the commander of u.s. military service command vietnam, the start of a four year stint for westmoreland. beginning in the spring of 1965, the united states began deploying ground forces to vietnam. under westmoreland, who had decided to conduct a war of attrition, these forces concentrated almost enti

taylor thank you very much. >>> come up the sexy paula dean shares >>> requested . >> >>>today's kitchen" is brought to you by maxwellula dean says fried chicken is among life's greatest accomplishments. "paula deen's southern cooking bible" welcome back. >> matt, great to be with you darling. >> in addition to "maxim" magazine calling you tv's sexiest female chef, when it came time to put your picture, they just put a stick of butter, i swear. >> i know! >> just a picture of a stick of butter. >> i hope it was salted. >> make me some fried chicken. classic dish in your household? >> there's your piece. >> i love the thighs. >> i do, too. that's where it is. >> you're going to season the chicken, season before you dip it in two separate bowls. >> i would probably season this in the morning for a dinner meal. >> okay. >> because you want it to soak up all those flavors. >> once you seasoned it, two separate bowls here, egg and flour. >> egg and flour. >> that's it. >> that's it. this is the basic southern recipe. of course at the restaurant we add hot sauce to this. >> okay. >> so there's different ways you can do it