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Old November 4th 04, 01:45 AM
T. Early
 
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"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote in message
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"clifto" wrote in message
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Bradley B. wrote:
Yes, Kennedy certainly played a role in escalation, but it began
with
Eisenhower. Although, Eisenhower wisely refused to bail out the
French, under Eisenhower in 1956, when the French leave Vietnam,
the
US Military Assistance Advisor Group (MAAG) assumes
responsibility,
from the French, for training South Vietnamese forces.
Historians,
of which Ann Coulter is not one, date this as the beginning of
the
slippery slope.


Revisionist historians, perhaps. Eisenhower did what he had to do
to
honor treaties. Kennedy escalated. Johnson really escalated. Nixon
ended the war.


Nixon ended the war after another 6 years of escalation....
1968-1974... the
Nixon years..



I don't buy the Nixon/Kissinger claim of a "secret plan" to end the
war, but it is a stretch to say that there was escalation under Nixon.

http://members.aol.com/warlibrary/vwatl.htm

This clearly was LBJ's war for purposes of the point raised by the OP.