I had a lot of wonderful experiences. [There were] a lot of protests then. It was the Vietnam War. That gave us a lot of experience as young journalists.

I knew Maggie since way back, when she was touring during the Vietnam war.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

This looks like a real war zone to me. Thirty years ago, I was in Vietnam, and I haven't seen such devastation since then,

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war