NVA General Giap vs USA General Westmoreland. Ho chi min vs John F Kennedy
As with MOST senior leaders during the Vietnam War, LBJ was a WWII veteran.
At the time of the Vietnam War, North Vietnam was led by Ho Chi Minh, who was the founder of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. South Vietnam was led by President Ngo Dinh Diem until 1963 when he was overthrown and later by Nguyen Van Thieu.
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It underminded public trust in American leaders.
American leaders misled Congress and the American people about the war.
They saw the Vietnam War and oppression against blacks as symptoms of the same unjust political, economic, and social systems.
Most US leaders supported the war, midway the same leaders opposed the war.
Yes. Nixon enemies, the anti-war demonstrators (one of their leaders), had papers in the Watergate hotel.
Ho Chi Minh from Vietnam and Mao Zedong from China.
Vietnam gave the "cold war" leaders the opportunity to perfect their "cold war" weapons...by actually using them in combat; e.g. the B52 & the MiG21 for example. SAMs and their accompanying radars as another example.
Vo Nguyen Giap