We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.