“We all have a share in it, and none of it is good. There are no heroes, just bums. I include myself in that.”

Taylor commenting on the fall of Saigon and with it the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam, speaking in a UPI interview in May 1975. Quoted from General Maxwell Taylor: The Sword and the Pen (1989), p. 366

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