At 6:08 PM -0400 on 9/7/98, Jim Choate wrote:
Ridgeway told Eisenhower at the outset that Vietnam was a multi-million-man war, and Eisenhower stayed out accordingly, throwing a few marginal people on the ground to shut Lodge up. It took Testosterone Jack to get a Special-Forces hard-on. Eventually he and Desktop Lyndon ended up screwing a pooch instead of the commies.
Balonely, do your research somewhere beside a bar. JFK had no intention of sending more troops in and every intention of withdrawing the troops that were there. There are two sources you can look at to verify this. The first is the troop count over time and the internal presidential memos to the Chiefs of Staff. Had JFK not been shot there would have been NO US troops in Vietnam by the end of '64.
LBJ is the nit-wit who crewed the proverbial pooch.
I've got an idea. Go read Halverstam's "The Best and the Brightest", Jim,
and then tell me what bar I did my research in.
Cheers :-),
Bob Hettinga
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Robert A. Hettinga