“No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.”
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 8
“I must say 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.”
Source: United States. Congress. Senate (1964) Hearings, Vol. 4, p. 177: Of the Vietnam War
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