Administration Quote by William J. Duiker

I did not feel - in President [J.F.] Kennedy's words - that we could win the war for [the government in Saigon]. When I…

— William J. Duiker

In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance to confront…

— William J. Duiker

[Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese - as…

— William J. Duiker

I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam was a…

— William J. Duiker

“For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but…

— Edward S. Greenberg

On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his approach was…

— William J. Duiker

I decided that after returning to the US to pursue an academic career I would eventually study the life of Ho Chi Minh to…

— William J. Duiker

Ho Chi Minh was well aware that the enemy possessed more firepower than did his own forces, and sought to use what he viewed…

— William J. Duiker

I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in…

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

“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

It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact the United…

— McGeorge Bundy