I don't take criticism lying down.

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

I don't take criticism lying down.

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.

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.

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?