I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.
The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D. C.
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.
Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)
Freedom-loving people around the world must say. . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.
In what is perhaps the strangest turn in the President's efforts to rally support, he agreed that Iraq is just like Vietnam, but in a good way.
So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War.
I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.
Can you imagine in 1968 some band being like, "Vietnam is the place to be!"
I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.
You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.
[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.
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.
If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.