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The plan was to help the non-Communist government to stay in power via virtually every way except direct military action on their behalf.
Eisenhower believed in sending troops, Kennedy did not.
Eisenhower believed in sending troops, Kennedy did not.
Robert McNamara, (Kennedy and Johnson Administrations). Clark Clifford, (Johnson Administration). Melvin Laird, (Nixon Administration).
The US had military advisers in Vietnam under Kennedy, but the was did not really start for the US Johnson became President.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Eisenhower believed in sending troops, Kennedy did not.
Kennedy.
Robert McNamara? Robert McNamara was John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense and served during the Vietnam War. He continued under Lyndon Johnson. His term was from 1961 to 1968. He is currently a business executive.
Eisenhower believed in sending troops, Kennedy did not.
The vietcong strikes convinced President Kennedy to send American military advisers to South Vietnam
US Army General Maxwell Taylor went to Vietnam, and on 01 November 1961 wrote a letter to President Kennedy recommending US Troops for Vietnam.