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

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

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.

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

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

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

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