Kennedy was advised by both Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur to pull out of Vietnam... Eisenhower was tied to lending support to the French and the newly established South Vietnamese government as part of the Paris Treaty at the end if WWII... terms agreed to by Truman.
Some say the Kennedy wanted out and this may have cost him his life...
Some say that Johnson saw the writing on the wall after Kennedy was hit a decided to go along with what Eisenhower referred to as the Military Industrial Complex..
So lets sum this up...
Ho Chi Minh approached Truman (a democrat) after assisting the US in fighting the Japanes to help in establishing a free country... Truman said no..
Eisenhower (a republican) gave aid and advisors to South Vietnam to help in the fight against the communist. But, refused to escalate it beyond that.
Kennedy (a democrat) escalated the conflict with more aid and ground and air support.
Johnson ( a democrat) further escalated the war and this cost him his presidency... that is he chose not to run and ran from the problem..
Nixon (a republican) ended it...
Score D-3 R-2.. looking at the scoreboard... looks like team D has the bigger ego Huh!
You forgot one name Robert McNamara - he should have been hung for treason... I my mind he was the true culprit behind this.... Or at least all of his CEO buddies
jkkartz1, for tomorrows class be prepared to discuss the Bay of Pigs and the events leading and including the Kennedy assassination..
That's quite a history lesson Schwantz. Here's a recent quote from a guy who also made history.
Trump lives and thrives in a fact-free environment. No president, including Richard Nixon, has been so ignorant of fact and disdains fact in the way that this president-elect does. It has something to do with the growing sense of authoritarianism that he and his presidency are projecting and the danger of it is obvious and he’s trying to make the conduct of the press an issue not his own conduct.
What we have seen throughout the campaign is pathological disdain for the truth, a kind of lie and ease with lying that we have not seen before. --- Carl Bernstein
