Ecstatic Quote by Bill Ayers

A lot of people were ambivalent about Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson in 1964 positioned himself as the peace candidate. Once Johnson sent large amounts of…

— H. W. Brands

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people…

— Robert Caro

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

— Bob Gunton

He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it…

— Oliver Stone

“This is not to say, as some have, that American decisions between 1954 and 1956 (and later in the Eisenhower years) made the American-Vietnamese…

— James T. Patterson

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what…

— Bill Ayers

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in…

— Helen Thomas

I think John F. Kennedy was the last great hope. And that's why I dwell on that subject. He was someone who could stand…

— Oliver Stone

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok,…

— J. William Fulbright

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course,…

— Rick Perlstein

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.

— Peter Jennings