Against Quote by David Douglas Duncan

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

I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign…

— William J. Duiker

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his…

— Stephen Ambrose

I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii...a lot of bad habits.

— Bui Diem

The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president,…

— Eric Alterman

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?

— William Westmoreland

Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.

— Robert Dallek

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.

— Charles Rangel

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president,…

— Eric Alterman

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

— Stephen Ambrose

I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam was a…

— William J. Duiker