Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society.. Shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
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Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.
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When I was a boy.. We didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner
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I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
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The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
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You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses.. Storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam War)
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. To Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)
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The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.
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I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved the Great Society in order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.
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I'd rather use the nuclear bomb.. Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. To Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War
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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
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It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.
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As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to.. The American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War)
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Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)
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As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)
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We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)
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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
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Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
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First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell of a lot easier to say, than the first thing I ever killed was a man.
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