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• Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn’t vetting the pictures and words.

   

  Bruce Jackson

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  Tags in Vietnam, War

• The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was… They put a pinch on it.

  Bob Livingston

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• My film is not a movie; it’s not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

  Francis Ford Coppola

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• I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

  Gerald Scarfe

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  Tags in Self, Drawings, Vietnam

• I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

  Bill Ayers

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• It’s not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

  Tom Clancy

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• When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care – and to the mail.

  William Westmoreland

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• 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?

  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.

  William Westmoreland

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• President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

  William Westmoreland

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  Tags in Vietnam, Alone

• We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

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  Tags in Vietnam, Vietnam War, War, Giving

• Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It’s not the home-run hitters.

  Willie Stargell

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• Someone has to die so that President Nixon won’t be, and these are his words, ‘the first President to lose a war.

  John Kerry

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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.

  William Westmoreland

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• I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

  Ed Bradley

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• As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion – and I worried about it.

  William Westmoreland

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• The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

  William Westmoreland

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• Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

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• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  J. G. Ballard

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  Tags in Nightmares, Watergate, Vietnam

• I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 – in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam – that is probably the most important case.

  Floyd Abrams

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