Today, Shooting Wars Are Won Or Lost

I Don't Want To Hear Of Any Of You Men Getting Into Any Fights With The British. But If You Do, You'd Better Not Get Whipped.

My Solution To The Problem Would Be To Tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] Frankly That They've Got To Draw In Their Horns And Stop Their Aggression Or We're Going To Bomb Them Into The Stone Age. And We Would Shove Them Back Into The Stone Age With Air Power Or Naval Power - Not With Ground Forces.

Killing Japanese Didn't Bother Me Very Much At That Time... I Suppose If I Had Lost The War, I Would Have Been Tried As A War Criminal.

You [president Kennedy] Have Made Some Pretty Strong Statements About Their Being Defensive And That We Would Take Action Against Offensive Weapons. I Think That A Blockade And Political Talk Would Be Considered By A Lot Of Our Friends And Neutrals As Being A Pretty Weak Response To This [the Cuban Missile Crisis]. And I'm Sure A Lot Of Our Own Citizens Would Feel That Way Too. In Other Words, You're In A Pretty Bad Fix At The Present Time.

We Went Over There And Fought The War And Eventually Burned Down Every Town In North Korea Anyway, Someway Or Another, And Some In South Korea Too. Over A Period Of Three Years Or So, We Killed Off - What - Twenty Percent Of The Population Of Korea As Direct Casualties Of War, Or From Starvation And Exposure?