William Westmoreland Quotes

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• Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.
• 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've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.
• In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
• Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
• The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
• 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.
• I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to…
• 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 haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
• It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
• When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail
• 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…
• They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a…
• Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
• The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.
• I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
• The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
• 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…

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