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The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days? ↗

— Lynn Westmoreland

#appropriate #back #billion #changing #come

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production. ↗

— Lynn Westmoreland

#american jobs #democrats #fewer #higher #higher taxes

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#aware #commander #i #opinion #potency

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? ↗

— William Westmoreland

#end #heck #how #i #impossible

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#i #i think #loved #respected #think

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#i #know #lynched #lynching #my own

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#communists #did #east asia #end #in the end

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

#ever #first #fought #full #had

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#every #involved #militarily #out #succeeded

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#been #criticized #last #man #me