 I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. |
| President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. |
| It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign. |
| My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had. |
| The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. |
| As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. |
| Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. |
| Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. |
| The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names. |
| I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. |
| We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong. |
| The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me. |
| I don't take criticism lying down. |
| War is fear cloaked in courage. |
| In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia. |
| By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they? |
| We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning. |
| When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. |
| I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student. |
| When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail. |
