In some respects these presidents are very similar. In the Johnson-Nixon war the military was very micromanaged in efforts to conduct this war. In Bush's war, it is micromanaged as well in the sense of we have not been given an objective, we have not been given a withdrawal time and we see no end in sight.

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

Like Nixon, he made large sums of money in the long games at military bases. Unlike Nixon, he was so good he had to stop playing with enlisted men; he was leaving too many of them broke.

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If Tom Daschle or another Democratic leader were to have made similar statements, the reaction would have been very swift, ... I don't think several hours would have gone by without there being an almost unanimous call for the leader to step aside.

Mr. President [Richard Nixon], I love you, but you're wrong. (on the Vietnam War)