At one point, he ordered an FBI wiretap on the paper’s chief military correspondent, Hanson Baldwin, over an alleged security breach. Then, when the paper’s Saigon correspondent David Halberstam began questioning the legitimacy of South Vietnam’s pro-U.S. Diem regime, Kennedy demanded that the Times’ new publisher, Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger, reassign the “28-year-old kid” to a less sensitive outpost. Sulzberger refused.105
