Being Quote by Orson Bean

One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of…

— Martin Niemoller

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 wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it…

— Oliver Stone

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do…

— Tom Wolfe

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

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

— Nat Hentoff

If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam.

— Zach Braff

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

We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we were trying…

— Noam Chomsky

“By this time the Vietnam War was such a confusing issue to most Americans that Nixon could take as many positions as he liked…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war…

— H. R. McMaster

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi