Who handled the Vietnam war the best Kennedy Johnson or Nixon?

Answer 1

Possibly President Richard Nixon. President Nixon caused the most damage to the North Vietnamese military with his extensive B-52 bomber campaigns (Line Backer I & Line Backer II), he also liked to use B-52's in Lao's and Cambodia. President Nixon also sent US GROUND TROOPS INTO CAMBODIA openly! In 1970. Then tried to do it again, this time in LAO's! In 1971. Congress stopped him that time, but the Lao's invasion went on anyway with South Vietnamese troops, and with US Troops right on the border, to support them. Soon after that, true to his (pre-election) word, he brought all of the men home!

Answer 2

Even though, AT THE TIME, each President handled it the best, AT THEIR TIME; Kennedy with the Green Beret, Johnson with the US Marines. History will most likely award Nixon with handling the war the best, simply because he ended it. However, it must be said, and history will acknowledge this too, Nixon was by far the most aggressive Commander in Chief; He invaded Cambodia with US ground troops (which resulted in the Kent State Shootings, 04 May 1970), he invaded Lao's (the US Army's last major offensive of the war), and he ordered the MAXIMUM EFFORT B-52 Stratofortress bombings of North Vietnam, which went down in history as the "Christmas Bombings" in 1972 (Operation Linebacker II). Discounting A-Bombs and the city of Dresden, no country in the world, ever received that kind of punishment, than they did under Nixon's "Line Backers I & II".

Answer 3

Johnson will most likely be held responsible for sending the most US troops into Vietnam.