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Eisenhower: sent military advisers to help prop up the non-communist government.

Kennedy: sent in 16,000 advisers and helped plot a coup to obtain a more favorable government..

Johnson: gradually escalated the situation into full-scale war.

Nixon: extended the war into Cambodia and Laos but gradually reduced US troops in Vietnam from 500,000+ to 25,000 while helping train south Vietnamese troops to replace them.

Ford: negotiated a truce which allowed most Americans to get out, but allowed North Vietnam to takeover the South,

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