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Originally Posted by AssEaterChief
He still had an opportunity to end it before that massive troop build up. He chose to keep "advisors" in country and his dream of a second presidency alive instead.
All three Presidents had their hands in the American presence there.
I guess the Kennedy thing just caught me off guard because I had always heard that had he not been assassinated, he would have likely pulled us out of Vietnam.
This just debunks that in my mind.
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I have mostly heard this in connection with conspiracy theorists who suggest that the CIA was behind Kennedy's assassination. I have never seen/heard any real evidence that Kennedy would have pulled us out. Given his stance on Communism in general, and his general hard-line attitude (see Missile Crisis, Cuba), I'm very skeptical.
BUT that does not necessarily mean he would have escalated it just like Johnson. Maybe he would have, but we'll never know.