As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

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?

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.