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" As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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 haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student. "

" In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia. "

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

" It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign. "

" I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive. "

" I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. "

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

" 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. "

" President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. "

" Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country. "

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

" The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. "

" The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else. "

" The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names. "

" Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. "

" War is fear cloaked in courage. "

" We had the best food any battlefield ever had. "

" We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong. "

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

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

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

" Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. "

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