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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.
President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.
We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme.
The United States must keep a low profile in Vietnam so we can negotiate its neutralization like we did in Laos .
My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed.
The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.
We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government.
Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.
Sweet Leaf' and 'Iron Man' were the rallying points for all the young men coming back from Vietnam.
The Democratic Party has been perceived to have a deficit of credibility on defense issues since the Vietnam War, unfairly or not.
The principle of the Communist Party of Vietnam is collective leadership with accountability and responsibility of the individual, which can never become authoritarian.
I felt only a conservative president could bring peace in Vietnam 'cause he wouldn't be accused of being soft on communism.
You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.
The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
Because conscription appeals to essentially no one, the United States has lived with the All-Volunteer Force since the end of the Vietnam War.
Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.
It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States.
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another:
teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
When I was younger, my dad taught me how to cook. He's a genius in the kitchen. I went to Vietnam with my parents, and I went on a cooking course with him.
Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.
I would say healthcare in Vietnam is so-so. There are several international clinics that are good but expensive and the care offered is limited.
I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii...a lot of bad habits.
If wars were won by superior technology alone, the United States would not have been vanquished in Vietnam or waylaid in Afghanistan.
It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.
My dad was in Vietnam and a law officer for 30 years. I wanted to be a cop before basketball. I do have pride for my country.
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.
By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?
Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.
By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.
Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.
If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.
Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
Some useful advice for all of my Asian-American brothers and sisters - never go paint-balling with a Vietnam veteran.
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind.
You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead.
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
Most of my stuff was sort of of-the-time. 'The Crazies' was, basically, we were angry about Vietnam, and it had a reason for being.
The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam.
Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.
