Presidents Johnson and Nixon
Lyndon Johnson.
Johnson & Nixon.
President obama
President Johnson believed that the US could defeat north Vietnam because the US had won WWII with firepower, and the US had the most firepower on earth during the Vietnam War.
Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
President Carter did not support the amnesty for men who left the US to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War due to his will to win the war and defeat Vietnam.
President Carter did not support the amnesty for men who left the US to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war due to his will to win the war and defeat Vietnam.
LBJ was the first US president to send conventional combat troops to RVN and the first president to begin openly bombing North Vietnam.
US President's Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford.
Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford.
JFK (same year as Diem/1963).
The US had military advisers in Vietnam under Kennedy, but the was did not really start for the US Johnson became President.