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In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
- William Westmoreland
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#End
#In The End
#Lose
#Lost
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
- William Westmoreland
#About
#Aware
#Opinion
#Public Opinion
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
- William Westmoreland
#Care
#Command
#Food
#Great
#Medical
I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
- William Westmoreland
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#I Think
#Loved
#Respected
#Think
We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.
- William Westmoreland
#Confront
#Country
#Defend
#Help
#Moved
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
- William Westmoreland
#Dead
#Just
#Masterpiece
#Names
#Vietnam
We had the best food any battlefield ever had.
- William Westmoreland
#Battlefield
#Best
#Ever
#Food
#Had
The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
- William Westmoreland
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#Man
#Me
#Soldier
#World
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.
- William Westmoreland
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#First
#Media
#Television
#War
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
- William Westmoreland
#Every
#Involved
#Out
#Vietnam
#Won
I don't take criticism lying down.
- William Westmoreland
#Criticism
#Down
#Lying
#Take
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
#Alone
#Leave
#Vietnam
#Want
#War
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
#Mind
#Things
#War
I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
- William Westmoreland
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#Captain
#First
#How
#Student
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
- William Westmoreland
#Attrition
#Looked
#War
#Were
#Winning
It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
- William Westmoreland
#Clear
#Effect
#Operation
#Running
#Very
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.
- William Westmoreland
#Job
#Me
#War
#Wife
#World
The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.
- William Westmoreland
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#Lead
#Like
#Military
#People
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
- William Westmoreland
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#Know
#My Own
#Own
#Problem
Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
- William Westmoreland
#Country
#Instrument
#Television
#Which
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
- William Westmoreland
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#Home
#Soldiers
#Themselves
#Vietnam
#Were
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.
- William Westmoreland
#Again
#Known
#Over
#Statement
#Would
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
- William Westmoreland
#Censorship
#Confused
#Get
#Mind
#Things
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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#Credit
#Difficult
#Enemy
#Men
#War
War is fear cloaked in courage.
- William Westmoreland
#Courage
#Fear
#War
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
- William Westmoreland
#Military
#Politicians
#Start
#War
#Wars
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