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It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

William Westmoreland

Effect

Running

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

William Westmoreland

End

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

William Westmoreland

Being

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

William Westmoreland

First

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

William Westmoreland

Country

Television

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

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?

I don't take criticism lying down.

William Westmoreland

Criticism

Lying

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

William Westmoreland

Troops

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