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Pick your President: Truman gave financial and material support to the French.

Eisnenhower sent in Military Advisors and Air America.

Kennedy sent in the Green Berets.

Johnson sent in the Marines, and

Nixon added Laos and Cambodia to the battle.

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President Kennedy is generally given credit, by sending in the US Special Forces (Green Beret) in 1961.

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