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

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

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

War is fear cloaked in courage.

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

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?

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.