Vietnam Quotes by Michael Moran https://padlet.com/201701007/j9nipp8l80nf en-us 2018-12-05 16:35:52 UTC 2018-12-14 04:39:00 UTC hello@padlet.com For the War 201701007 https://padlet.com/201701007/j9nipp8l80nf/wish/311455843 "We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw [U.S. troops] either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement" - LBJ
LBJ is all in for American involvement in the war. He claims that America won't be defeated and that we won't leave Vietnam until we win.

"I am not going to lose Vietnam. I am not going to be the president who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went." - LBJ
LBJ swears to the country that he's going to be the president to win the Vietnam War.  This means he's all in for fighting against the VC

"My solution to the problem would be to tell them frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them back to the Stone Ages." - LeMay
This quote is pretty straight forward: LeMay pledges that if the VC wont stop fighting then we're going to attack with more force.

"I refuse to believe that a little fourth-rate power like Vietnam doesn't have a breaking point" - Henry Kissinger
Kissinger was all in for the war as he claimed that Vietnam was going to lose since they were a 'fourth-rate power'



]]> 2018-12-05 16:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/201701007/j9nipp8l80nf/wish/311455843 Against The War 201701007 https://padlet.com/201701007/j9nipp8l80nf/wish/311455968 "We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." - LBJ
Before he became president, LBJ addressed that he was against sending Americans to a war that they weren't involved in.

"I believe this resolution to be a historic mistake. I believe that within the next century, future generations will look with dismay and great disappointment upon a Congress which is now about to mistake such a historic mistake" - Wayne Morse
Morse was against the idea of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the document that congress passed to have American soldiers fight in Vietnam.

"We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it... I regard [this] as a policy of madness which will soon envelop my son and American youth for years to come." - George McGovern
McGovern acknowledges that it's futile to save a country by destroying it and waste American lives.
Hey, Hey LBJ, How many kids did you kill today? - American protesters

]]> 2018-12-05 16:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/201701007/j9nipp8l80nf/wish/311455968 Willing To End The War 201701007 https://padlet.com/201701007/j9nipp8l80nf/wish/311461158 "Declare the United States the winner and begin de-escalation"  - LBJ
LBJ was willing to end the Vietnam war as long as America was declared the winner

"The war has already stretched the generation so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart." -Senator Frank Church

"I think we have all underestimated the seriousness of this situation. Like giving cobalt treatment to a terminal cancer case. I think a long protracted war will disclose our weakness, not our strength." - George W. Ball
Ball acknowledges that America underestimated Vietnam and if we keep fighting, we're only going to expose our weakness.

"Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam.  But it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished as far as America is concerned." - Gerald Ford
A week before the war ended, President Ford accepts that the war has been lost but that wont change America's sense of pride.

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