When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail
I'm very moved to be here today,. . . Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.
The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D. C.
I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.
Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on our sleeve because we know that fact impresses everybody! I was in Vietnam. So what? I live in New York!
Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.
America is stagnant. We've lost our jobs. We've lost our businesses. We're not making things anymore, relatively speaking. Our product is pouring in from China, pouring in from Vietnam, pouring in from all over the world.
Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will be serious risks and increasing pressures for coastal protection in South East Asia (Bangladesh and Vietnam), small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and large coastal cities, such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Calcutta, Karachi, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, New York, Miami and London.
Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier. " Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.
I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there.
I'm working on this fashion line that's all inspired by Vietnam. I'm Vietnamese so a lot of the clothes are inspired by Vietnamese culture, and I'm trying to mix that with the streetwear style.
Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?
The Philippines was with the U. S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.
Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U. S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.
Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam
You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.
In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.
You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead.