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In five pages this paper answers questions regarding the handling of the Vietnam War by Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, liberalism and Republicans, and considers how the New Left and radicals of the 1960s sought to go beyond the traditional definition of liberalism. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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conversations between Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and their advisers in the Oval Office have been made public, can their policies be compared and contrasted with any
degree of certainty. Actually, the U.S. involvement in Vietnam dates back to the Truman Administration, when the post-World War II landscape was being subdivided into democratic and Communist ideologies.
This so-called Cold War led to increased American military commitment in Southeast Asia. President Eisenhower had privately promised the South Vietnamese that he would commit U.S. troops to
their efforts to remain free of Ho Chi-Minh and the control of the North Vietnamese Communists. President Kennedy inherited Eisenhowers promise, and increased the number of military advisers his
predecessor had sent to the region significantly. Until 1963 at least, Kennedy did not believe this relatively insignificant involvement would escalate into full-blown war. His policy approach was
more passive and covert. Instead of sending troops to fight in South Vietnam, Kennedy instead approved of a military coup that toppled its government with the murders of President
Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu (Blight and Lang 159). Robert S. McNamara, who served as Secretary of Defense under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys
knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. Furthermore, according to McNamara, Kennedy feared an increased U.S. presence in the region because
he did not believe the war could be won or that American forces could contain the spread of Communism, which would be a disastrous blow to his foreign policy. Like
Kennedy, Johnson was fearful of the damage to the U.S. global prestige if South Vietnam would be lost to the North. However, despite his lack of foreign policy experience
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