Of course there was a loud group that opposed the war and they became increasingly vocal and gained credence in the public's eye as the war drug on. Time may have altered public acceptance and perception of what Vietnam was all about. Richard Nixon said: "No event in American History is more misundertood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Rarely have so many people been wrong about so much. Never have the consequences of their misunderstanding been so tragic." Two ratings provided by General William Westmorland in his post-war research deserve mention: 91 percent of all Vietnam Vets polled say they are glad they served and 74 percent said they would do it again even knowing the war's outcome.
The Vietnam War hurt his image.
It was the lowest approval rating during that century
His approval rating is very low, at about 40%.
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After the Vietnam war the war powers act was passed. Basically it said that if a president wanted to put troops in a war zone he had to have approval of congress. Before this the president didn't need to get approval for a short period of time or a "police action." Vietnam never was a declared war so none of the Vietnam presidents went to congress to put men into Southeast Asia.
Never seen as a popular war, approval slid lower and lower as the war dragged on.
President George W. Bush had a 90 percent approval rating after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001--the highest approval rating of any president.
His approval rating is very low, at about 40%.
No way. Many people were against the war and protested it. in fact, there are many songs from the 60s that are about protesting the war.
Truman's lowest approval rating was 22%
The President's Approval Rating is a measure of how much the people like the President at any given time during his term of office. As of July 30, 2014, President Obama's approval rating sat at 46 percent.
claiming that the North Vietnamese had attacked American ships in international waters.