I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .

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.

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

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

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

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