President Eisenhower sent military advisors and maybe some technicians to Vietnam to help the government there stay in power. That was the beginning of US involvement there.
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
LBJ was the first US president to send conventional combat troops to RVN and the first president to begin openly bombing North Vietnam.
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Approximately 54 M24 Chaffee light tanks.
To try and keep South Vietnam from falling to the Communists, and because the government of South Vietnam was too corrupt and incompetent to defend themselves. The government of South Vietnam was never able to defend themselves, and President Gerald R. Ford finally gave up on them in 1975. They soon fell to communist North Vietnam.
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
LBJ was the first US president to send conventional combat troops to RVN and the first president to begin openly bombing North Vietnam.
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The vietcong strikes convinced President Kennedy to send American military advisers to South Vietnam
The first "advisors" were sent by President Eisenhower on 12 February 1955. On 13 May 1961 President Kennedy sent the first Special Forces troops to Vietnam. In March of 1965 President Johnson sent in two Marine Infantry Battalions.
the president had a small penis and coudent fight it himself
In 1959 i was 32 years old and i remember reading in the news print that President Eisenhower had sent advisors to Viet-nam or was going to send advisors.
Approximately 54 M24 Chaffee light tanks.
it caused president Johnson to send more troop to Vietnam
It caused President Johnson to send more troops to Vietnam.
It caused President Johnson to send more troops to Vietnam.
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