Ford was a WWII USN veteran aboard the CVE (Escort Aircraft Carrier) USS Monterey in the Pacific; he knew war. He backed his commander in chief.
He ordered an airlift of about 300,000 Vietnamese refugees into the United States
In 1975; President Gerald R. Ford's attitude toward North Vietnam's invasion of South Vietnam was to state that South Vietnam was a beaten country and that the USA had done all that could be done and the USA was giving up on South Vietnam, which was overrun in 55 days.
No, the war was over and done with by 1975, with the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), the last president to be saddled with this war was the beginning of Gerald Fords' reign as president after Nixon resigned.
Gerald Ford .
The Vietnam War=the military draft!
Ford was President when South Vietnam fell to the communists (North Vietnam).
Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
The president of South Vietnam at the end of the war was Nguyen Van Thieu.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a hero to Gerald Ford for the same reasons he was a hero to a lot of Americans. He was confident, down-to-earth, and a war hero in World War II.
They were ashamed of it
The Vietnam war ended in 1975, Gerald Ford was president.
Gerald Ford wanted to end the war. He just wanted to get out the US out of it. Despite their promise to respect the government of South Vietnam, the North came in even just as the Americans were getting out.