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 military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

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

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.

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

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

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.