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We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.

A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What were we really there for? What were we really fighting for?

We were the group that built the roads by day that the Vietcong traveled at night.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.