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“who opposed Hanoi not so much on ideological grounds, but because of its methods. They had seen the VC execute or imprison leaders who…

— Mark Bowden

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply…

— William Shawcross

“Although Nixon stepped up military pressure by bombing heavily and greatly expanding South Vietnamese forces, the enemy did not bend. Nor did détente with…

— James T. Patterson

“Hanoi’s leaders were virtuoso songbirds of propaganda. They lived in a bubble. There were no voices of dissent in their society to check or…

— Mark Bowden

The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very…

— Robert McFarlane

“Richard Nixon was elected president mendaciously promising not victory, but a “secret plan” to bring the war to an “honorable end.” The secret plan…

— Mark Bowden

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

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

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“the Tet surprise was regarded by Westy as proof of Hanoi’s weakness. Nowhere in his understanding of the war was there room for the…

— Mark Bowden

“There were splits within families over the present war, where one son had sided with Saigon and the other with Hanoi. The “liberation” of…

— Mark Bowden

The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to…

— Gerald R. Ford