I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

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

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.

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.

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

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