Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.

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.

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

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

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

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