I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
Ed Bradley
MoreAlwaysVietnamCambodiaThan
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
Jim Webb
LeadershipLongCrisisVietnam
When you have a democratically elected president of Iran you don't topple him for the Shah. You don't help topple Arbenz in Guatemala. You don't do what we did in Vietnam, etc.
Matt Gonzalez
HelpYouPresidentHimVietnamDid
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
Stephen Ambrose
MistakeWarThoughtVietnamDreadful
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.
Robert Dallek
BecomeMattersSeePointVietnam
I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.
Jon Voight
PeaceMovementUpPropagandaVietnam
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
William Westmoreland
OpinionSeniorVietnamAwarePublic
I returned to Vietnam in '94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I remained afraid. And, in some ways, rightly so.
Tim O'Brien
WalkingPlaceAfraidVietnamEven
In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.
Noam Chomsky
WarStrongWorthMovementVietnam
After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.
Morley Safer
WorkWarDifficultOpenVietnam
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.
Howard Fineman
GoodTimeWatergateNobleVietnam
The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted.
David Douglas Duncan
FireFightingNeverMarinesVietnam
I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.
Bill Ayers
DayWarPeopleCountryVietnamUs
Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.
Newt Gingrich
MeMoreDifferenceVietnamMadeAny
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.
Helen Thomas
WarMoreTopFiredVietnamBecause
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
Benjamin Spock
WarProudVietnamBecauseWhoWere
Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
R. Lee Ermey
BetterNowDaysVietnamThan
This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
Hanoi Hannah
VoiceVietnamBroadcastingRepublic
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater
WarLookMudMonthVietnamMade
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