Vietnam Quote by James T. Patterson

The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United States organized…

— Noam Chomsky

“Richard Nixon was elected president mendaciously promising not victory, but a “secret plan” to bring the war to an “honorable end.” The secret plan…

— Mark Bowden

“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

“who opposed Hanoi not so much on ideological grounds, but because of its methods. They had seen the VC execute or imprison leaders who…

— Mark Bowden

Ho Chi Minh sought to defeat both adversaries [French and American] primarily by using diplomatic and political means, combined with paramilitary activities.

— William J. Duiker

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply…

— William Shawcross

“The American soldiers were brave, but courage is not enough. David did not kill Goliath just because he was brave. He looked up at…

— Vo Nguyen Giap

“And so, seemingly overnight, French political and military influence in South Vietnam withered. On May 20, 1955, French forces withdrew from the Saigon area…

— Fredrik Logevall

“Although Nixon stepped up military pressure by bombing heavily and greatly expanding South Vietnamese forces, the enemy did not bend. Nor did détente with…

— James T. Patterson

“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

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

— William Westmoreland

There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a political settlement…

— Noam Chomsky