Adviser Quote by Jim McDermott

I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go…

— F. Murray Abraham

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of…

— Kitty Kelley

“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

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

— Muqtada al Sadr

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with…

— Ho Chi Minh

“It was the sixties, exactly, all we wanted to do was to smoke a lot of dope and ball a lot of chicks. Vietnam,…

— Ben Fountain

Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence…

— Robert Dallek

I was too important to go to Vietnam.

— Mitt Romney

As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely…

— Robert Dallek

It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact the United…

— McGeorge Bundy

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

— William Westmoreland

In the longer term, I hope that as Vietnam evolves into a more prosperous society with active ties to the international marketplace, it will…

— William J. Duiker