Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

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

I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

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

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 .

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