Before Quote by Bob Schieffer

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

— William Westmoreland

I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“We the People - shelling the Vietcong”

— Allen Ginsberg

In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of…

— Walter Cronkite

I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.

— Tom Hayden

“The Viet Cong were not the idealistic warriors of American antiwar propaganda; they were vicious. They relied on terror.”

— Mark Bowden

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

— William Westmoreland

“For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but…

— Edward S. Greenberg

The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to…

— Gerald R. Ford

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

— George McGovern

“She had joined the Viet Cong herself four years earlier, its Young Pioneer Organization.”

— Mark Bowden

I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What…

— Richard Armitage