Also maybe I am just not getting it, but LeMay's "gaffe" on the 1st page just makes him look pretty good. He was asked, and true to his claims he spoke plainly and responded. Nothing really out of the ordinary here.
Now that I think of it, I can remember 3 instances of LeMay in alternate history and all 3 make him look pretty good. One is in a Cuban missle Crisis gone hot where people suspect him of going over his station, but turns out it's a soviet fail-deadly plan of payback setting stuff up on the USA to lead to a rebelion and LeMay shows up pissed to a white house under siege to report to JFK that he is there to follow his orders and bomb the rebels into smithereens. Secon was one old TL on this site where the west does fall to commie revolutions like the USSR "predicted" and LeMay is the last US president (having been Wallace VP and getting the job after he is shot). He contemplates ordering a strike against the USSR for the domestic problems with Civil Rights and protests and such, but decides against it and instead announces he will step down from the Raven Rock bunker (after which a Social Democrat - Socialist - Commie USA is born, though I don't quite remember).
And the 3rd is from The New Order where he again becomes president after Wallace is shot, but in this case he actually goes and forces Civil Rights and a end to segregation via presidential decree to the absolute complete anger of most of his allies in government. A event shows him signing it not out of any love of the plight of minorities, but because he figures the USA needs to move on from segregation to go forward and he can do it, and since he never wantes to be POTUS and has no plan to run again he os happy to put a torch to it all at be the guy that does what has to be done and hated for it.