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.

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