"Nixon's backtrack on Vietnam did little to surprise me. What did, was the strength and ferocity amongst America's youth, whose unrelenting resistance to bloodshed inspired my hopes for what we could do to get back in the White House." -Ted Kennedy Interviewed for The Tenacity of Progress (2003) -From RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1979) "The revelation of what went on at My Lai was to say the least disturbing. If there was any single event that proved we shouldn't be in Vietnam it was that. A single crime that shouted out loud that this conflict must end." -Ted Kennedy Interviewed 1969