“To pour money, material, and men into the jungles of Indo-china without at least a remote prospect of victory would be dangerously futile and self-destructive.”
—JOHN F. KENNEDY
“I knew from the start… if I left a woman I really loved—the Great Society—in order to get involved with that bitch of a war in Vietnam, then I would lose everything at home.”
—LYNDON B. JOHNSON
“Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Vietnam’s aid.”
—LYNDON B. JOHNSON
“If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we’ll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we’ll have to fight in San Francisco.”
—LYNDON B. JOHNSON