Presidents Johnson and Nixon played the biggest role in the Vietnam war. Compare and contrast their policies.?

Question

Yeah, I'm asking presidential policy questions. No, I'm not the president. But couldn't you totally see George asking Y! Answers policy questions?

Anyways, I'm writing an essay. Help a brother out :0)

...and cite your sources.

Yeah, I'm asking presidential policy questions. No, I'm not the president. But couldn't you totally see George asking Y! Answers policy questions?

...cite your sources.


PS don't think you're cute and tell me to do my own homework. that doesn't help someone who's new to a school and has a million essays to catch up on.

Answer 1

Actually, President John F. Kennedy played a very significant role in sending the first 16,000 military advisers to 'South' Vietnam. This is not to deny the larger role played by Lyndon B. Johnson, or Richard M. Nixon - it is to add a little background to the roles played by those two leaders instead. From one failed presidential policy to another, it is possible to see what went wrong, and even George may want to take a look back at his predecessors - if he were the kind that recognized there were military victories in Vietnam, but only political defeats.

The best sources on the war in Vietnam:

Answer 2

Dec 8, 1969 : Nixon declares Vietnam War is ending............. At a news conference, President Richard Nixon says that the Vietnam War is coming to a "conclusion as a result of the plan that we have instituted." Nixon had announced at a conference in Midway in June that the United States would be following a new program he termed "Vietnamization." Under the provisions of this program, South Vietnamese forces would be built up so they could assume more responsibility for the war. As the South Vietnamese forces became more capable, U.S. forces would be withdrawn from combat and returned to the United States. In his speech, Nixon pointed out that he had already ordered the withdrawal of 60,000 U.S. troops. Concurrently, he had issued orders to provide the South Vietnamese with more modern equipment and weapons and increased the advisory effort, all as part of the "Vietnamization" program. As Nixon was holding his press conference, troops from the U.S. 25th Infantry Division (less the Second Brigade) began departing from Vietnam. Nixon's pronouncements that the war was ending proved premature. In April 1970, he expanded the war by ordering U.S. and South Vietnamese troops to attack communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. The resulting outcry across the United States led to a number of antiwar demonstrations—it was at one of these demonstrations that the National Guard shot four protesters at Kent State. Although Nixon did continue to decrease American troop strength in South Vietnam, the fighting continued. In 1972, the North Vietnamese launched a massive invasion of South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese forces reeled under the attack, but eventually prevailed with the help of U.S. airpower. After extensive negotiations and the bombing of North Vietnam in December 1972, the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973. Under the provisions of the Accords, U.S. forces were completely withdrawn. Unfortunately, this did not end the war for the Vietnamese and the fighting continued until April 1975 when Saigon fell to the communists.

Answer 3

First of all, Kennedy got us involved in Vietnam, Johnson got us more involved and increased troop deployment and brought about the draft and Nixon worked on trying to resolve the whole stinking undeclared war that congress tried to micro manage and screwed everything up to cause a loss. The N. Vietnamese Gen. Giap was ready to sign a peace accord, but then saw all of the discord of idiots here including the traitor Kerry and Hanoi Fonda and decided to keep fighting, because he felt we would surrender and leave eventually, which we did under the Nixon Admin. The Dem party turned the whole thing into a fiasco.

As far as your homework, you will have to go read about it. It is in history books. You learn by reading, not by some one doing the work for you.

Answer 4

Should really do your own homework. Otherwise..it isn't really your essay is it?

Answer 5

I was fixin to say, sounds like your homework question....google that shiznit...and good luck