RFK Jr: “My uncle spent the 1,000 days of his administration battling his military apparatus and intelligence agencies to keep the country out of war” “On October 22, 1963 … he signed National Security Order 263 ordering all military personnel home from Vietnam. 30 days after that, he was killed. And a week after that, LBJ, his successor, remanded that order and sent 250,000 troops in, then Nixon came in and sent 560,000.