Desire Quote by John Lewis

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

— William Westmoreland

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

— Mark Shields

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people…

— Robert Caro

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the…

— Lew Wasserman

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to…

— Stephen Ambrose

You can support the troops but not the president.

— Tom DeLay

“The unfortunate reality is that, even today, too many citizens have reason to fear that their right to vote, their access to the ballot--and…

— Ari Berman

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

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

“The U.S. troop level soared during the next two years, but Johnson never allowed U.S. ground forces to pursue the enemy across the border…

— Robert D Sander

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