They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without the necessity of arousing the public ire.