Viet Nam: Lessons From a Lost War

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QUOTE: "You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one and (the last one) will go over very quickly."

--EISENHOWER

1954

QUOTE: "We do commit the U.S. to preventing the fall of South Viet Nam to Communism."

--ROBERT

MCNAMARA

1961

QUOTE: "But it will be just like Berlin. The troops will march in; the bands will play; the crowds will cheer; and in four days

everyone will have forgotten. Then

we will be told

we have to send

in more troops."

-JOHN F. KENNEDY

1961

QUOTE: "There just isn't any simple answer.

We're fighting a kind of war here that

I never read about

at Command and

Staff College. Con-

ventional weapons just don't work here. Neither do conventional tactics."

--FROM GRAHAM

GREENE'S THE

UGLY AMERICAN

QUOTE: "You let a bully come into your front yard, the next day he'll be on your porch."

--LYNDON B.

JOHNSON

ON SEVERAL

OCCASIONS

QUOTE: "In the final analysis it is their war . . . We can help them . . . but they have to win

it, the people of

Viet Nam."

--KENNEDY

1963

QUOTE: "We are not about to send American boys 10,000 miles away to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."

--JOHNSON

1964

QUOTE: "Hell no, we won't go!"

--ANTIWAR CHANT

1965

QUOTE: "I'm not going to be the first President who loses a war."

--RICHARD NIXON

1969

QUOTE: "Peace is at hand."

--HENRY KISSINGER

1972