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26. JFK had plans to start withdrawal, iirc, which were forestalledby his assassination...

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Tue Sep 19, 2017, 03:10 AM

Sep 2017

Then everything he planned or thought of doing past that November went dark.

This recollection is very old and I've never independently researched it (no Google or Wiki in 1967-68). I'm glad to see others confirm it. Tha ks.

One of my friends, Bob, was a Poli Sci major who talked us into supporting a Senator we'd never heard of: Eugene McCarthy, the first to come out as a presidential candidate in opposition to the war that was taking so many of our friends.

As college kids will do, we often talked far into the night -- it was Bob who brought up that bit about JFK. It struck us so hard -- the catastrophe that was the Vienam War did not have to become what it became.

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Kennedy sent my dad, twice. LeftInTX Sep 2017 #1

LOL, don't believe it. He didn't buy into the Domino Theory, he predicted the quagmire reality. ucrdem Sep 2017 #2

But until the elections - which were more than a year away - he was going to tolerate question everything Sep 2017 #5

No, LBJ didn't want to end it. ucrdem Sep 2017 #7

LOL yourself Spider Jerusalem Sep 2017 #9

Right, I've seen it. Quite the gotcha considering that he was killed shortly after. ucrdem Sep 2017 #13

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The reality is that the Kock brothers, or, perhaps only one of them, has been an underwriter question everything Sep 2017 #6

I laugh out loud then say a few 4 letter words BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #24

Ken Burns is the documentarian karynnj Sep 2017 #21

"We've always held LBJ responsible for the war." SharonClark Sep 2017 #4

I learned a lot of the background in the first segment. I was a high school student, then a young Arkansas Granny Sep 2017 #35

If you want to go back to JFK, let's also go back to Eisenhower. RandySF Sep 2017 #8

Go back to Truman. Spider Jerusalem Sep 2017 #10

Right, thanks, was gonna post that, elleng Sep 2017 #14

This! pokerfan Sep 2017 #19

Exactly. Ho Chi Minh was already working with the OSS. Warren DeMontague Sep 2017 #27

And that little money became $3 billion dalton99a Sep 2017 #20

And, of course, Churchill was wiser than all of them question everything Sep 2017 #31

Is it me, or do most editorials and columns in the Tribune bash Democrats? RandySF Sep 2017 #11

They endorsed Gary Johnson RhodeIslandOne Sep 2017 #12

compared to the days of old man mc cormick, they are pussy cats. but yeah. mopinko Sep 2017 #15

The Chicago Tribune leans right and it has for at least 50 years. Nt karynnj Sep 2017 #22

Much Farther Back Than That ProfessorGAC Sep 2017 #30

They certainly have been on the right, historically question everything Sep 2017 #28

USA supported free elections then refused to honor the outcome. that's where it began for us nt msongs Sep 2017 #16

Kennedy had begun a withdrawl from Vietnam tirebiter Sep 2017 #17

Johnson became President when JFK died, not when he was elected karynnj Sep 2017 #23

Timing. LBJ ran for reelection a year after the assassination. tirebiter Sep 2017 #25

Well, from a historical point of view, Vietnam did have a . . FairWinds Sep 2017 #18

Ah, but Hussein tried to kill Papa Bush! question everything Sep 2017 #32

JFK had plans to start withdrawal, iirc, which were forestalledby his assassination... Hekate Sep 2017 #26

And yet, McCarthy never endorsed Humphrey question everything Sep 2017 #33

I became a Democrat-for-life in 1968, and nothing has shaken me from that stance since ... Hekate Sep 2017 #34

In my high school civics class we were educated about the Vietnam War from information supplied jalan48 Sep 2017 #29