We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

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.

I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

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.

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.