Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
Richard Nixon
I believe in the battle - whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.
Richard Nixon
By intervening in the Vietnamese struggle the United States was attempting to fit its global strategies into a world of hillocks and hamlets, to reduce its majestic concerns for the containment of communism and the security of the Free World to a dimension where governments rose and fell as a result of arguments between two colonels' wives.
Richard Nixon