Quotes About Thieu

On election day, Nixon was elected president with 43.4 percent of the vote to Humphrey's 42.7 percent, a margin of just seven-tenths of 1 percent. Clandestine maneuvering may have helped him win that narrow victory—"Nixon probably would not be president if it were not for [President] Thieu," his speechwriter William Safire once admitted—but Nixon's fear that the maneuvering might someday be exposed would eventually help bring about his undoing.

I believe that the United States has no possible ability to pacify the Vietnamese people, win support for Thieu, win a political victory or a military victory in the air, on the ground, in the North or the South.