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I have voted for as many Democrat Presidents as I have for Republican Presidents. However, Kennedy was the only Democrat that didn't soon cause me regret the decision.

 

Perhaps you are onto something.

 

Because LBJ assumed the presidency?

 

I was about to post the same thing so I'll go with, because he had a hot wife and his buddy was Sinatra

 

That happened ages ago...biggest spike was the watch building kid so far...or as Sly has said..briefcase clock to be used as an accessory for any traveling middle schooler

 

I did cringe when I hit the post button.

 

fixed it

 

I don't bother with hitting the post button...jaywalking is much quicker

 

Kennedy was a mixed bag; He was a good strong race equality leader. My biggest problem with him was he was the first president to send troops to Vietnam, which was a very bad war for us to be active in.

Kennedy mishandled the CIA lead Bay of Pigs invasion, which probably lead to the Cuban missile crisis.
He took us to within minutes of being in a nuclear war.

I was taught by the Catholic nuns that Kennedy sat at the right hand of God and was a perfect president. They endlessly repeated their teaching brainwashing until I had it memorized, or until I ran out of blood from the ruler beatings they were giving me. (gee, the nuns behavior is starting to remind me of ISIS Muslim radicals).

 

Actually Eisenhower sent the first troops to Nam under the guise of advisors...Kennedy was not a great president which is hard to say because he was such a pop star. I think Bobby however would have been a great prez

 

Is this statement accurate? Kennedy sent the first "combat troops" to Vietnam.

 

You're not the only one.

 

Shoot! I had never heard of Vietnam Until Johnson was President. I knew of it as IndoChina when I was there to retrieve a hostage from some Pirates on the coast there. That was before
Kennedy was elected.

Johnson made Vietnam with his blown up incident in the Gulf of Tonkin where the Maddox and the Joy were attacked by PT boats. What a figgin joke, that would be a turkey shoot for
a Gearing and Sherman class destroyers. We were in the shit hip deep after that though.

 

I don't thinks so, a few advisors, I think but not combat troop. We had MAG groups (Military Advisory Group) in countries all over the place in that day.

 

That's my take but I think Eisenhower sent the first americans over before Kennedy..Kennedy inherited the situation if I remember correctly

 

My memory concurs, but it was no big deal. That is why we didn't even know the name had changed from French Indo China to Vietnam. I guess that happen just after Ho add defeated the French. It became North and South Vietnam. Ike probably sent a MAG group to the South soon after the split. Probably right about the time I was there, but I don't think it was related.

 

Timeline of the Vietnam War
1862: Vietnam became part of the French Empire


1890: Ho Chi Minh was born


1930: Ho Chi Minh helped to form the Indo-Chinese Communist Party


1941: Vietminh formed to counter Japanese invasion of Vietnam


1945: Japan handed Vietnam to the Vietminh; Ho Chi Minh declared the

Democratic Republic of Vietnam (September); French troops arrived back in Vietnam


1946: war broke out between the French and the Vietminh


1949: Communist China came into being allowing the Vietminh to train in

China away from French attacks


1950: Truman refused to recognise the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Communist China + USSR did recognise Ho’s state


1954: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu – Giap defeated the French force based there; a ceasefire was agreed at Geneva that split Vietnam at the 17th Parallel; France withdrew her military from Vietnam; US promises aid worth $100 million to the anti-communist Diem


1955: The pro-American Ngo Dinh Diem became President of South Vietnam in October.America agreed to train Diem’s army.


1956: Diem started to arrest anyone suspected of being in the Vietminh


1957: the Vietminh started a campaign of guerrilla warfare in South Vietnam


1959: American military advisors were killed in Vietnam – the first US

casualties; the Ho Chi Minh Trail was first used


1960: the National Liberation Front (NLF) was formed in Hanoi though in the South, they were known as the Vietcong (VC)


1961: US President Kennedy pledged extra aid to South Vietnam


1962: The number of US military advisors increased from 700 to 12,000


1963: President Diem was killed in a military coup

15,000 US military advisors were in South Vietnam


1964: the Gulf of Tonkin incident; Congress passed the ‘Gulf of Tonkin

Resolution’; America bombs targets in North Vietnam; NLF attacked US air bases


1965: ‘Operation Rolling Thunder’ started; first US combat troops were sent to Vietnam in March; by the end of the year there were 200,000 US troops there; first major conventional clash between USA and NVA at Ia Drang


1966: 400,000 US troops were in Vietnam


1967: 490,000 US troops in Vietnam; Nguyen Van Thieu became President of South Vietnam


1968: Tet Offensive; demonstrations against the war started in America; My Lai massacre; peace talks began in Paris; 540,000 US troops in

Vietnam; anti-Vietnam War riots in Chicago (August)


1969: Nixon ordered the secret bombing of Cambodia; ‘Vietnamization’

started; Nixon announced the start of US troop withdrawals; Ho Chi

Minh died; 480,000 US troops in Vietnam; My Lai massacre made

public in November


1970: Four student demonstrators shot dead at Kent State University;

280,000 US troops in Vietnam; secret peace talks held in Paris; large scale anti-war demonstrations throughout USA


1971: 140,000 US troops in Vietnam; Lt. William Calley convicted of murder at My Lai and jailed


1972: Haiphong harbour mined (May); “Peace is at hand” – Dr Kissinger


1973: ceasefire signed in Paris; last US troops left Vietnam; US POW’s

released


1975: Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia; NLF captured Saigon


1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial unveiled in Washington DC

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