Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

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

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.

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had

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.

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

War is fear cloaked in courage.