Bombing Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson Download Open image “Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.” — Lyndon B. Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bombing Bombs Hanoi Know how Knows Likes May Want
“The plan called for attacks leading up to Tet against American bases throughout the South—Khe Sanh, Da Nang, Con Tien, Pleiku, and others. It… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“Hanoi’s leaders were virtuoso songbirds of propaganda. They lived in a bubble. There were no voices of dissent in their society to check or… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
“Richard Nixon was elected president mendaciously promising not victory, but a “secret plan” to bring the war to an “honorable end.” The secret plan prolonged the conflict seven more years, spreading misery and death throughout Indochina. Nixon began gradually drawing down the number of Americans fighting there in 1969, and— catastrophically, as it turned out— began shifting the military burden… — Mark Bowden Copy Share
“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 Copy Share Image
The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
When he served in China during World War II, [Ho Chi Minh] learned about Mao Zedong's tactics of guerrilla war against the Japanese (and… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“What if he just bombs everyone again?" Ian asks, breaking the silence. "Just like he did with Omega Point?" "He won't," Warner says to him. "He's too arrogant, and this war has become personal. He'll want to toy with us. He'll want to draw this out as long as possible. He is a man who has always been fascinated by… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings… I was crying so… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla was with… — Roger Hilsman Copy Share Image
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
WASHINGTON - Ever since President Obama ordered American warplanes to begin bombing terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria last year, members of Congress have… — Peter Baker Copy Share Image
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image