Yeah. Nixon fixed Vietnam real good didn’t he?
Do you think if Nixon had been elected in 1960 we would’ve even had a war in Vietnam?
Eisenhower had kept Vietnam at arms length. JFK’s need to project a tough image (especially after the Bay of Pigs and the Vienna summit with Khrushchev), led JFK to escalate in Vietnam and then disastrously overthrow Diem.
Then when LBJ took over, he was afraid that “losing Vietnam” would impact his radical domestic policy in 1964-65 (at which time he didn’t foresee just what a mess Vietnam would be. He knew it was bad, but not that bad.)