President Truman supported the French re-occupation of Indo-China. He also provided American ships for the purpose. As a result General Douglas MacArthur threatened to resign. Truman was forced to dispatch General George Marshall to Japan to prevent the resignation. This was the beginning of the Truman MacArthur rift.
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Johnson wanted their support for his Vietnam War Policy.
President Carter did not support the amnesty for men who left the US to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war due to his will to win the war and defeat Vietnam.
President Carter did not support the amnesty for men who left the US to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War due to his will to win the war and defeat Vietnam.
Lyndon Johnson in 1966 was the first US President to visit Australia. He was seeking support for the Vietnam War.
Lyndon Johnson The first president to send a fighting force into Vietnam was President Lyndon B. Johnson although President Dwight D. Eisenhower sported the French in the First Indochina War with navy and air support no actual forces had set food inside Vietnam
At the end of the Vietnam War, Congress refused to support South Vietnam any longer.
Kennedy feared that Communists would take over South Vietnam.
Officially, the US has supported all anti-communist leadership of the Republic of South Vietnam, commencing with the first president, Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem, in 1955.
Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) was President in 1959 when the Vietnam War began. About 900 US military advisors were sent to the area. President John F. Kennedy supported the anti-communist regime of South Vietnam, providing increased aid and support. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to push Congress to authorize the direct deployment of US troops.