Top 32 William Westmoreland Quotes
#1. My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.
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#2. It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
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#3. We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
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#4. I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts ... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .
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#5. In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
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#6. 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.
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#7. The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
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#8. 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?
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#9. This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.
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#10. President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
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#11. Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
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#12. I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
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#15. When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
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#17. It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
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#18. The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.
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#19. They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.
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#21. As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
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#22. When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
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#23. 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.
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#24. We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.
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#26. Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.
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#28. Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
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#29. The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
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#30. I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
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#31. I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower.
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#32. I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
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