It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Can you imagine what Nixon would have been like had somebody loved him? He would have been a great, great man had somebody loved him

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

For me, the tragedy of Vietnam was the divisions that occurred in the United States that made it, in the end, impossible to achieve an outcome that was compatible with the sacrifices that had been made, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.