Xenophon
Gone and forgotten
Dude, you should know better.We were involved in Vietnam before LBJ.
Eisenhower sent a bunch of "military ad visors" to Vietnam. JFK sent in special forces.
We had only 'advisors' and the war was nearly over in 1964, the South had lost, until LBJ faked the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and then lauched 'Operation Starlight' in which a Marine regiment landed at Da Nang and began a sucessful sweep and clear operation in 1965.
On the legs of this LBJ moved over a half million US service perssonel into SVN.
And if you want to play semantics, Vietnam was started by TRUMAN, not Eisenhower, Harry renegged on the uS promise to Ho in favor of the French.
LBJ is definitely the one who amped it up and really turned it into a "war" ... no disagreement there ... I'm just saying that we had our nose in Vietnam llong before LBJ.
Anyway you want to cut that pie, a Democrat was there first.