#vietnam

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. ↗

— David Cross

#huge #i #i remember #kid #looking

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. ↗

— Jon Voight

#brought #caught #during #era #hysteria

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived. ↗

— Mort Walker

#army #attacking #both #both sides #experiences

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights. ↗

— John Wooden

#deny #going #i #opposed #other

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

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

— Jerry Stiller

#knew #made #movie #never #until

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

Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend. ↗

— Andrew X. Pham

#catfish-and-mandala #change #past #vietnam #vietnamese-literature

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#age #being #congress #die #enough

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam. ↗

— Paul Begala

#american #american people #being #democrats #forgave