American Quote by Rick Perlstein

Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.

— Robert Dallek

As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely…

— Robert Dallek

Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence…

— Robert Dallek

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

— Salman Rushdie

“The 1930s, Kennedy said, 'taught us a clear lesson; aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.”

— John F. Kennedy

What was Ted Kennedy? Was he not the ultimate insider in Washington, yet maintaining philosophical views, when necessary?

— Michael Capuano

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of…

— Wally Schirra

You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the…

— Alexander Haig

“What he’d wanted before had crumbled away, leaving the truth of what Kennedy did to him. It was new, and there was a long…

— Natalie J. Damschroder

“Yet the point that JFK missed—and that almost everyone else has gone on to miss—is that much of this journalism was devoted to upholding…

— Christopher Hitchens