Broads Quote by 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 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

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every…

— Wilfred Burchett

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 first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign…

— William J. Duiker

“I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law. The very facts were shrouded in uncertainty: Was…

— Tim O'Brien

[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

When he served in China during World War II, [Ho Chi Minh] learned about Mao Zedong's tactics of guerrilla war against the Japanese (and…

— William J. Duiker

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 see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There is no…

— William J. Duiker

If [Ho Chi Minh] had had carte blanche over his movement, would the results of the war have been different? That is difficult to…

— William J. Duiker

Many of the ideas of Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong came naturally to the young Ho Chi Minh, who would probably have applied the…

— William J. Duiker