Quote

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.

Helen Thomas

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Helen Thomas
Age: 92 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 4
Died: 2013
Died: July 20
Author
Journalist
Writer
Winchester
Kentucky
Helen Amelia Thomas
Also
Johnson
Truman
Troops
Prolonged
Vietnam
Commander
Reached
Commanders
Popular
Korean
Disobeyed
Knew
Fired
Requested
War
William
Endgame
Order
Orders
Douglas

More quotes by Helen Thomas

Image
When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
Helen Thomas
Image
I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.
Helen Thomas
Image
I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly.
Helen Thomas
Image
I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press.
Helen Thomas
Image
I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.
Helen Thomas
Image
I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.
Helen Thomas
Image
I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.
Helen Thomas
Image
You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.
Helen Thomas
Image
I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes' and asked for their resignations.
Helen Thomas
Image
We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.
Helen Thomas
Image
I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.
Helen Thomas
Image
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
Helen Thomas
Image
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.
Helen Thomas
Image
Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.
Helen Thomas
Image
But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
Helen Thomas
Image
The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.
Helen Thomas
Image
The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.
Helen Thomas
Image
You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
Helen Thomas
Image
I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.
Helen Thomas
Image
I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.
Helen Thomas