American history Quote by Richard M. Nixon

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood…

— Robert Dallek

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans.…

— Maya Lin

The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought…

— Nick Turse

Vietnam was a terrible mistake for the United States. But like Iraq, Vietnam was a badly chosen battlefield in a larger conflict with totalitarianism…

— Jacob Weisberg

Vietnam affected everything in life while it went on. My time in the service made it clear to me that what we were being…

— Jim Starlin

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

— Noam Chomsky

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or…

— H. R. McMaster

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

— George McGovern

“There was no such thing as the Vietnam War. This rather surprising statement is in fact 100% true - on a technicality. As the…

— Jack Goldstein

For many Americans, 'Vietnam' is a word associated with war and the extraordinarily complex history between our countries. But since normalization began, the U.S.…

— Ben Rhodes

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

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

— Stephen Ambrose