"Napalm in the Morning" Authorship

[Sam Clements]

[And then there's the famous "napalm" line from "Apocalypse."

"I just wrote it -- it just came up," said Milius, describing the famous
line uttered wistfully by Duvall's surfing Col. Bill Kilgore. "That's what
happens. People love to think that all this stuff happens when you write a
famous line -- that you really thought about it a lot."]

from an interview
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:L1HhKHxekd4J:www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/09/john.milius.movies/index.html+milius+napalm+interview&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

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From: "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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> Can anyone point me to any information, on the web or in books or
> articles, concerning the division of labor between John Milius and Francis
> Ford Coppola in writing the screenplay for "Apocalypse Now"?
> Specifically, is Milius or Coppola given credit for writing the "I love
> the smell of napalm in the morning" speech?
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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