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Lyndon B. Johnson
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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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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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Lyndon B. Johnson
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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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Lyndon B. Johnson
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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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William Westmoreland
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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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Richard Milhous Nixon
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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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William Fullbright
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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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Richard Milhous Nixon
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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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Richard Milhous Nixon
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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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Henry Kissinger
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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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Lyndon B. Johnson
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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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Richard Milhous Nixon
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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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William Fullbright
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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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Charles De Gaulle
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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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Ronald Reagan
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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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Lyndon B. Johnson
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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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Richard Milhous Nixon
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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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Edmund White
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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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Richard Milhous Nixon
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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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Muhammad Ali
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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I???m not going 10,000 miles f
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Gerald R. Ford
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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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George McGovern
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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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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
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"It's not bombing. It's air support." USAF Col David Opfer Vietnam war
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"Drug Wars"... America's latest Vietnam
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"We had to destroy the village to save it." -- Vietnam Soldier
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"Two weeks later, I left Vietnam." Forrest Gump
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"I thought I could do the best good at A&M during Vietnam." - Phil Gramm
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"What's the capitol of North Vietnam?" Tom asked annoyingly.
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"Sit right back and enjoy the Vietnam War!" -- Tom Servo
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Dif. between Jane Fonda & Bill Clinton? Jane went to Vietnam
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"The War on Drugs" - America's latest Vietnam.
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Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
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If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: Thi
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