President Ford had to send in US Marines and US Sailors to help evacuate Saigon in April 1975.
President Eisenhower sent US troops to Vietnam in 1955, President Ford pulled out the last US troops in 1975.
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President Eisenhower.
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President Dwight Eisenhower
In the 1950s and 1960s Eisenhower and Kennedy sent US soldiers to South Vietnam. In 1965 President Johnson sent the US Marines.
The US Civil War (1861-1865) & the Vietnam War (1961-1975).
The first "advisors" were sent by President Eisenhower on 12 February 1955. On 13 May 1961 President Kennedy sent the first Special Forces troops to Vietnam. In March of 1965 President Johnson sent in two Marine Infantry Battalions.
That was President Lyndon Johnson.
The United States went into war with Vietnam in the year 1965.
Lyndon Johnson was the president when large numbers of US troops were first sent to Vietnam.
Special Forces (Green Berets) were sent to Vietnam by President Kennedy in the early 1960's. REGULAR US ground troops were sent in 1965.