As the kind of movie star that you were, certainly you could be a dictator, ... You could say, 'I want it,' and it got done. You can't do that now.

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You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.

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But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.