In 1967, two reporters — one of them, a gent named Murray Fromson — filed stories which quoted an anonymous "senior American general" about how badly the war in Vietnam was going for the U.S. The article enraged the White House and the Pentagon, and I seem to recall a lot of their supporters insisting that no general would say such a thing; that the reporters had to have made it all up. Today in the New York Times, in this article, Fromson reveals the name of his source. And it really doesn't matter who it was…only that he appears to have really had one.