Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.

There is nearly always uh, a process of wanting contingency plans made in the military.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.

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