No. LBJ wanted nothing to do with Vietnam...it just fell on top of him and he couldn't get up from under it. He hated the war so much; he went on television to announce publicly, that he refused to run for re-election.
To try and keep South Vietnam from falling to the Communists, and because the government of South Vietnam was too corrupt and incompetent to defend themselves. The government of South Vietnam was never able to defend themselves, and President Gerald R. Ford finally gave up on them in 1975. They soon fell to communist North Vietnam.
President Nixon did not use the election and election promises to diffuse ill-will over the war in Vietnam. He wanted to keep the people angry and essentially make them hate the Vietnamese to keep support over the war efforts.
The USA became involved in 1960, when President Kennedy sent military advisors to Vietnam. The nation was in a civil war. The US began to send troops in a large scale around 1964. At one point the US had 500,000 troops in Vietnam. The US was trying to keep communism from spreading in southeast Asia. The US did not wish to escalate the war into a larger theater. With that said, the US played a more defensive war. For example, the US did not invade North Vietnam. Popular unrest on the American home front became shocked at US losses. President Nixon end the war in 1973.
US President Washington knew he had to keep order and end the Whiskey Rebellion. He personally led 12,000 troops to end it. The troops were militias from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. It should be noted that Alexander Hamilton's new tax laws created the rebellion.
Australian troops were sent to Vietnam on Robert Menzies orders (the Australian prime minister of the time). They were sent to Vietnam because Communism was spreading throughout Asia, and Menzies feared it coming to Australia, so he sent our troops in. Although, our troops only started out as advisers to our allies, but sometime later Menzies decided to send in our combat troops.
President Johnson did not reveal the number of casualties to the American people. The idea that America was having a more difficult time in Vietnam than previously expected was something the government hoped to keep to themselves.
To try and keep South Vietnam from falling to the Communists, and because the government of South Vietnam was too corrupt and incompetent to defend themselves. The government of South Vietnam was never able to defend themselves, and President Gerald R. Ford finally gave up on them in 1975. They soon fell to communist North Vietnam.
President Johnson did not reveal the number of casualties to the American people. The idea that America was having a more difficult time in Vietnam than previously expected was something the government hoped to keep to themselves.
To safeguard Washington DC.
His biggest failure in the mind of the public was probably his continuation of the war in Vietnam. He continued to send and keep troops there and was hated for his escalation of the war. He lost public support and was heckled by the phrase: "Hey, hey LBJ, hopw many kids did you kill today?"
well president Lincoln wanted to end slavery but on the other hand president Johnson wanted to keep it.
The U.S. was propping up an anti-communist dictator in order to keep a communist dictator out of power.
Johnson became the president after Kennedy's assassination and the cabinet was already in place.
President Nixon did not use the election and election promises to diffuse ill-will over the war in Vietnam. He wanted to keep the people angry and essentially make them hate the Vietnamese to keep support over the war efforts.
President Nixon did not use the election and election promises to diffuse ill-will over the war in Vietnam. He wanted to keep the people angry and essentially make them hate the Vietnamese to keep support over the war efforts.
The USA became involved in 1960, when President Kennedy sent military advisors to Vietnam. The nation was in a civil war. The US began to send troops in a large scale around 1964. At one point the US had 500,000 troops in Vietnam. The US was trying to keep communism from spreading in southeast Asia. The US did not wish to escalate the war into a larger theater. With that said, the US played a more defensive war. For example, the US did not invade North Vietnam. Popular unrest on the American home front became shocked at US losses. President Nixon end the war in 1973.
No, they keep the same vice president. For instance when Abraham Lincoln got shot, Andrew Johnson (the vice president) took his place as president.