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"Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country."
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"When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves."

"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."

"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?"

"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."

"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning."

"It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign."

"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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