"VIETNAM" FOR ONE DOLLAR!

Today I purchased Stanley Karnow's "VIETNAM A HISTORY" published in 1983. 750 pages long I will never read the book as I have lived it.

 

 

 

There are some marvelous quotes I will site tomorrow. "President Diem is the Churchill of the decade..." LBJ. 
  


"When France arrived in Indochina, the Annamites were ripe for servitude."  Paul Doumer.




"If the gooks want a  fight, they'll get it."  General Etienne Valluy


"This spring far outshines previous springs.
Of triumphs throughout the land come happy tidings.
Forward!


Total victory shall be ours."
Hanoi Radio  January 1, 1968




"In Vietnam, too, we work for world order...Let no one doubt for a moment that we have the resources and the will to follow this course as long as it may take. No one should think for  moment that we will be worn down, nor will we be driven out., and we will not be provoked into rashness."
                                                                      Lyndon Johnson


"The United States has not provided massive assistance to South Vietnam, in military equipment, economic resources, and personnel in order to subsidize continuing quarrels among South Vietnamese leaders."


                                                                       Dean Rusk


"I have concluded that I shall not permit the presidency to becomeinvolved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year.... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president."


                                                                          LBJ
                                                                          March 31, 1968


IBID all quotes from Stanley Karnow's book  "VIETNAM  A History" c. 1983