#viet

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#always #apply #caution #cold #cold war

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#also #brainy #brilliant #defense #disastrous

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#chess #even #exception #fischer #only

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#knew #made #movie #never #until

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#former #likely #materials #nuclear #seeking

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

#i #only #party #vietnamese

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#making #now #our #place #power

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#detente #encouraging #especially #expansion #failed

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#away #could #first #get #i

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#happening #i #me #really #soviet