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[[Image:Curtis LeMay.jpg|thumb|250px|right|General '''Curtis LeMay''', from the National Museum of the USAF]]
[[Image:Curtis LeMay.jpg|thumb|250px|right|General '''Curtis LeMay''', from the National Museum of the USAF]]
==Politics==
==Politics==
Unexpectedly named the vice presidential running mate for independent candidate [[George Wallace]] in 1968, LeMay proved a mediocre campaigner. He called for using all available firepower, including nuclear weapons, to force North Vietnam to end the war quickly. He said that the United States was capable of "bombing Vietnam back into the stone age" and that the North Vietnamese should be aware of such power. LeMay felt any settlement in the Far East should protect free governments from communist takeovers. He quit politics after the race.
Unexpectedly named the vice presidential running mate for independent candidate [[George Wallace]] in 1968, LeMay proved a mediocre campaigner. He called for using all available firepower, including nuclear weapons, to force North Vietnam to end the war quickly. He said that the United States was capable of "bombing Vietnam back into the stone age" and that the North Vietnamese should be aware of such power. LeMay felt any settlement in the Far East should protect free governments from communist takeovers. He quit politics after the race.
==Quotes==
*''Killing [[Japanese]] didn't bother me very much at that time...I suppose if I had lost the [[war]], I would have been tried as a [[war criminal]].''
== See also ==
== See also ==