01-17-2017, 01:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-17-2017, 01:04 PM by David Horn.)
(01-16-2017, 06:21 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: But Kennedy got us into the Vietnam war where Nixon got us out, and the Bay of Pigs wasn't so great either. I suspect Kennedy would have turned out to be a mediocre president had he survived.
Our entry into that stupid war started with a decision by Eisenhower to allow the French back into Indochina. Up to that point, the Viet Minh were allies. The problem was compounded by our backing the French in 1956, by supporting the "temporary" split between the North and South. We had military on the ground in the '50s. The first US service death came in 1956. The first deaths due to hostile action in 1959. Kennedy was inaugurated in January of 1961.
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