Back when Quote by Merle Haggard

The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam.

— Mick Hucknall

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

— Michael Herr

A lot of people were ambivalent about Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson in 1964 positioned himself as the peace candidate. Once Johnson sent large amounts of…

— H. W. Brands

Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

— Jimmy Carter

[Elvis] Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should…

— Robert Plant

I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

— Frank Sinatra

Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency…

— Bill Ayers

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

— Rod Stewart

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

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social…

— Leonard Bernstein

Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated;…

— Karl Marlantes

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his…

— Stephen Ambrose