Now he wanted to dispense with it. But, in fact, by then we were closer on Vietnam as well, for he had, after two decades of silence regarding the war, published his book In Retrospect , in which he repudiated his former justifications for the war, famously writing of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, “We were wrong, terribly wrong.”
现在他想要摒弃这种论调。但实际上，时至当日我们对越南问题也有了相近的看法，因为他在对战争长达20年的缄默后，出版了 《回顾》 一书，在其中否定了以前对战争的辩护，对肯尼迪和约翰逊政府做出了著名的评论，“我们错了，大错特错了。”