American Quote by Martin Jacques

“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army…

— Michael G. Kramer

“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army…

— Michael G. Kramer

Like many Americans, I am still haunted by images from the last days of the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Newscasts showed…

— Jeanne Shaheen

We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley…

— Michael Ignatieff

“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

When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and…

— Rick Perlstein

During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was effectively closed.…

— Gerald R. Ford

“The United States had complete control of the air over all of Vietnam, and could presumably deliver a decisive blow at will. The failure…

— Mark Bowden

The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973.

— Bo Gritz

“a group of villagers in the highlands of Vietnam, he’d discovered the crash site of four U.S. soldiers who had gone missing fifty years…

— Susan Wiggs

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

— William Westmoreland