Westmoreland served as Chief of Staff between 1968 and 1972. He retired from the Army in 1972 and made a failed attempt to become involved with politics. In 1974, Westmoreland ran for Governor of South Carolina but lost. He continued working in South Carolina especially in the field of education.
During WW II he commanded a battalion of artillery in North Africa and Sicily and was a divisional staff officer in North-West Europe. He commanded an airborne brigade in the Korean war, and an airborne division and corps. In 1957 he became the youngest major general in the army and in 1961 he was appointed superintendent of West Point, where he had been captain of cadets.
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