William Westmoreland Quotes
Top 29 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Westmoreland
William Westmoreland Famous Quotes & Sayings
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As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
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.
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?
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.
The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
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.
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.
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.
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.