[VadeRetro]

Thanks for posting this, as I was curious about the dates of service. Kerry has had the brazen dishonesty to refer to his service in "Mr. Nixon's War."

Kerry had been commanding swift boats in Vietnam for two months before Nixon was ever inaugurated. Did he really not know that Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat, was President when he, Kerry, went to war?

Nixon would have to have made peace within two months of taking office to have had a prayer of dodging Kerry's slur and I doubt even that would have worked.

[Hon]

Maybe Kerry preceives it that way because he didn't get into much combat until after Nixon was elected President.

Of course we know why he says it. He can't blame LBJ or his own personal god, JFK.

[Thommas]

Did he really not know that Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat, was President when he, Kerry, went to war?

Of course he knew. When he was commissioned an O-1, the order was signed by the then POTUS, LBJ. I guarantee, every Officer in the U.S. Military remembers who gave him/her the commission.