Men and women Quote by Henry Kissinger

“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 was the boiling point of our generation. Young people of courage and commitment often chose opposite courses of action. So did…

— Mark Anthony Sullivan

“The truth was that history—and in Indochina we were on the wrong side of it—was a hard taskmaster and from the early to the…

— David Halberstam

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

“And as far as the United States in Vietnam, the United States did not lose prestige because it left Vietnam. It lost prestige when…

— Howard Zinn

“From the perspective of nearly half a century, the Battle of Hue and the entire Vietnam War seem a tragic and meaningless waste. So…

— Mark Bowden

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo -…

— Neil Young

In Vietnam, America fought one whose communism was driven by an underlying nationalism, the desire to live free of the West. Whatever one may…

— Shelby Steele

In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and…

— Dinesh D'Souza

So if you look at the writings of intellectuals, there are two kinds. One said, l"Look, if we fought harder we could have won.But…

— Noam Chomsky

It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record…

— Jonathan Schell

Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the…

— Gerald R. Ford