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resented that he esculated the war
Communist troops attacked Saigon, the capital city of South Vietnam, and thirty of its provincial capitals.
Replacement of U.S. troops with south Vietnamese soldiers
President Ngô Đình Diệm
"Let 'em up easy"
Communist North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam
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The USA should have given up on the corrupt and incompetent government of South Vietnam when President John F. Kennedy and/or Lyndon B. Johnson was in office in 1963/1964/ or after LBJ was elected President in November 1964. Unfortunately the USA, (and our allies), spent hundreds of thousands of lives and untold amount of resources trying to defend South Vietnam between 1963 and 1975. In 1973 President Richard M. Nixon pulled the USA out of the hopeless nation, and in 1975 President Gerald R. Ford Finally gave up on South Vietnam, which was Never Able to Defend itself, In spite of all that was done to try and keep it independent. South Vietnam was a mess and there was Nothing that we could do to save it from North Vietnamese conquest.
The president is the ceremonial head of state.
The south has an economy based on plantation farming.
The south has an economy based on plantation farming.