Thread: democrats desert ship, aye

Originally Posted by michael h

Then again Johnson felt it necessary to issue NSAM273 imediately after the assassination. One doesn't withdraw troops as a show of support.

I'll admit Kennedy didn’t like the war and Johnson did. The truth is US troops were in Viet Nam under Kennedy.

Originally Posted by Amielle

I'll admit Kennedy didn’t like the war and Johnson did. The truth is US troops were in Viet Nam under Kennedy.

This is true ... I suspect between Nam, The Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Operation Northwoods, Kennedy had gotten his fill of the CIA and the JCS. He might have started a little fired up being a vet ... however I think Northwoods left a bad taste, changing his viewpoints.