My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had

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

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

War is fear cloaked in courage.

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

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

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.