Rationality Will Not Save Us.

I Don't Object To Its Being Called "mcnamara's War." I Think It Is A Very Important War And I Am Pleased To Be Identified With It And Do Whatever I Can To Win It.

Kennedy Was Trying To Keep Us Out Of War. I Was Trying To Help Him Keep Us Out Of War. And General Curtis Lemay, Whom I Served Under As A Matter Of Fact In World War Ii, Was Saying "let's Go In, Let's Totally Destroy Cuba."

The Greatest Contribution Vietnam Is Making-right Or Wrong Is Beside The Point-is That It Is Developing An Ability In The United States To Fight A Limited War, To Go To War Without The Necessity Of Arousing The Public Ire.

All The Evidence Of History Suggests That Man Is Indeed A Rational Animal, But With A Near Infinite Capacity For Folly. . . . He Draws Blueprints For Utopia, But Never Quite Gets It Built. In The End He Plugs Away Obstinately With The Only Building Material Really Ever At Hand--his Own Part Comic, Part Tragic, Part Cussed, But Part Glorious Nature.

That's One Of The Major Lessons: No President Should Ever Take This Nation To War Without Full Public Debate In The Congress And/or In The Public.