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

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

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

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?

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

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.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.