#vietnam

I hate being told I can't do something because I'm a girl! ↗

— Thanhha Lai

#insideoutandbackagain #life #love #refugees #saigon

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#governance #iraq-war #lyndon-b-johnson #politics #united-states

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#censorship #confused #ever #first #fought

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#chi #every #his #imprint #just

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#french #joined #member #party #political

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#ended #good #good things #gulf #gulf war

I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam. ↗

— Roma Downey

#happened #heading #i #i think #just

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#been #before #black #cause #correct

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that. ↗

— George Wald

#beyond #die #effect #heaven #kill

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#answered #believe #communicate #felt #i