Cet entretien fait partie d'un dossier sur la guerre du Vietnam comportant également l'entretien avec le général Giàp, réalisé par
John F. Kennedy, Jr., texte d'origine :
« Of course, he [Giap] was a formidable adversary. Let me also say that Giap was trained in small-unit, guerrilla tactics, but he persisted in waging a big-unit war with terrible losses to his own men. By his own admission, by early 1969, I think, he had lost, what, a half million soldiers? He reported this. Now such a disregard for human life may make a formidable adversary, but it does not make a military genius. An American commander losing men like that would hardly have lasted more than a few weeks. »