Date of birth: 1914-03-26
Date of death: 2005-07-18
Quotes number: 27
Nationality: American
Profession: Soldier
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
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?
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.
I don't take criticism lying down.
I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.
In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
