They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

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.

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

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

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

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.