Lyndon Johnson's War by Larry Berman

Author:Larry Berman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-09-23T04:00:00+00:00

IX

The Tet Offensive

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war is worse. ... A man who has nothing which he cares about more than his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

On February 8, 1968 President Johnson sent this quotation from John Stuart Mill to Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Clark Clifford, and the Joint Chiefs.

I just don’t understand it. Am I that far off? Am I wrong? Has something happened to me? My wife said, I think so. But she said you don’t know what year you are living in. This is ‘68.

Remarks by President Lyndon Johnson to a Congressional delegation in the White House, January 30, 1968.

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