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This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.
William Westmoreland
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William Westmoreland
Age: 91 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 2005
Died: July 19
Military Commander
Military Officer
Politician
Spartanburg
South Carolina
William Childs Westmoreland
William C. Westmoreland
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We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
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The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.
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As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
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My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had
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It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
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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.
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War is fear cloaked in courage.
William Westmoreland
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
William Westmoreland
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
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The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.
William Westmoreland
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
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When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail
William Westmoreland
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
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Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
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I don't take criticism lying down.
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Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.
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We'll blast them back into the stone ages!
William Westmoreland
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?
William Westmoreland
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
William Westmoreland
In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
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