I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

I don't take criticism lying down.

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

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

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

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