#vietnam

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

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God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

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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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Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

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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. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War. ↗

— Mike Mansfield

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No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#china #civil #civil rights #depression #directions

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#beyond-vietnam #maturity