I don't mind being called tough since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

My solution to the problem [Vietnam] would bet to tell them frankly that they've got to draw in the horns and stop their aggression, or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.