When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

I don't take criticism lying down.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

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

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

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.

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