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

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

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

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

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

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.