who was the us president during vietnam?

Answer 1

It started with Truman funding South Vietnam.
Eisenhower sent military advisers.
Kennedy sent 400 Green Beret & more advisors.
Johnson declared war & started the flow of soldiers by beginning the draft.
Nixon sent soldiers too & then due to public opinion withdrew them.
North Vietnam overtook South Vietnam shortly after.

Answer 2

ok merely the data, first there became no Vietnam war in accordance to government records. It became a conflict. The U.S. not at all formally declared war on North Vietnam. The Vietnam conflict had 5 distinctive presidents deliver troops in extremely some capacities. First became Dwight D. Eisenhower, who sent "advisers" to survey, prepare and checklist back on the conflict. lots of those advisers died for the time of guerrilla operations. John Kennedy accompanied tournament with sixteen,000 "advisers" being in Vietnam and/or Southeast Asia on the time of his dying. LBJ, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford have been the different 3 to deliver troops over there. Ford sending them to truly execute our evacuation plan.

Answer 3

It depends on what you are talking about! The actual war in Vietnam started in 1854 when the US Constitution shelled Da Nang!

Former Emperor Bao Dai had appointed Ngo Dinh Diem, a Vietnamese Catholic who had lived in the U.S. and Europe, Premier of South Vietnam. Though Vietnam was 95% Buddhist, the Catholic Diem was soon recognized as the future leader of Vietnam by the CIA and other U.S. interests. In 1956 the U.S. refused to go along with the promised nation-wide elections because, in the words of President Eisenhower, "Possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader rather than Chief of State Bao Dai."

U.S. involvement continued and so did U.S. money and men. American presence rose to 500 under (REPUBLICAN)Eisenhower and grew to 15,000 under Kennedy. But Diem continued to be in trouble: former Viet Minh cadres helped to support a number of groups to oppose Diem and the French successor in Vietnam -- the U.S. The similarity between the French and the U.S. forces in Vietnam was, from the Vietnamese point of view, more than that both were foreign oppressors. Even our uniforms were similar, right down to the green berets. In fact, U.S. troops were known as "Frenchmen with money."

Kennedy did not get us into a war with Vietnam! The actual committment of ground troops was under LBJ and his lie about the Gulf of Tonkin which all the Republicans supported, and Nixon was the president who cut and ran!

My father was an advisor in Vietnam in 1959.Kennedy was not president in 1959, Eisenhower was.....and his vice president was Richard Nixon!


And IVOTE is partially correct, it was the Truman doctrine of the fall of South East Asia to the Communist which was the impetus for Eisenhower! We had been giving money to the South Vietnamese long before advisors!

Answer 4

Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon

Answer 5

John F. Kennedy stuck his toe in the pool.

Lyndon B. Johnson jumped completely into the pool.

Richard M. Nixon pulled us out of the pool.

Answer 6

I think President Kennedy, was in office in the beginning of the war, then he was shot and Mr. Johnson took over as President. Back in the late 60's.

Answer 7

Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. It was Johnson (a Democrat) that was instrumental in the build up of US troops. It was Nixon (a Republican) that got us out.

Answer 8

Johnson in the beginning and later, Nixon. I believe

Answer 9

Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer 10

What year? mostly Johnson and Nixon