The US Secretary of Defense during the battles in Vietnam; tells the US Senate that Gulf of Tonkin was unprovoked; helps LeMay with bombing plans; he was the architech for the Vietnam war and promptly resigned after the US lost badly.
The porch. View in gallery. A porch is a covered shelter projecting in front of the entrance of a house or building in general. The structure is external to the walls of the building but it may be enclosed in certain types of frames including walls, columns or screens, extending from the main structure.
A porte cochere is a short portion of covered driveway, usually located at the front or side of a house, under which cars can stop while the passengers get out and go into the home. Such entryways were common in large private homes and in public buildings in the late 1800s and most of the 1900s.