The Vietnam War is JFK’s war, Eisenhower merely had advisers there doing what they they should be doing, just as we have advisers in all kinds of hot spots today.
JFK came into office and kept escalating and increasing the numbers of “advisers” to very high numbers in time he had 16,000 American troops over there and had the Vietnamese president killed and bingo, war.
JFK was not going to withdraw, that is something that the left tries to promote, but even Bobby told us that his brother wasn’t doing so.
1961 – John F. Kennedy sends 1,364 American advisors to South Vietnam. Still no land reform. An operation of U.S. military pilots and planes were ordered to bomb targets in South Vietnam. The operation is cancelled moments before takeoff.
1962 – The number of U.S. advisers increases to 9865. U.S. pilots are clandestinely bombing North Vietnam in an attempt to destabilize the Ho Chi Minh government. “The U.S. did not want to harm relations with Diem, and he was the last political stronghold in Vietnam facing the communists. This ‘fact’ is debatable...”
1963 – 15,500 Americans in Vietnam. Diem is losing his grip on the Buddhist revolutionaries. Kennedy agrees with South Vietnamese generals to remove Diem. With the CIA’s conveying Kennedy’s approval, Diem is assassinated in a military coup and succeeded by a series of military commanders.
“When Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, there were 16,000 US military advisers in Vietnam. The number of troops grew to more than 500,000, and the war raged for another decade.