Time Quote by Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

“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

Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he…

— Harry Shearer

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

I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong,…

— George McGovern

Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“This is not to say, as some have, that American decisions between 1954 and 1956 (and later in the Eisenhower years) made the American-Vietnamese…

— James T. Patterson

“Richard Nixon was elected president mendaciously promising not victory, but a “secret plan” to bring the war to an “honorable end.” The secret plan…

— Mark Bowden

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end,…

— Raul Grijalva

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

“What? -- RICHARD M NIXON”

— Thomas Pynchon

Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.

— Robert Dallek

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