President John F. Kennedy concurred with his predecessor's domino theory and also believed that the credibility of U.S. anticommunist commitments around the world was imperiled in 1961. ... Whether these gruesome developments would have led Kennedy to redirect or decrease U.S. involvement in Vietnam is unknown, since Kennedy himself was assassinated three weeks later. ... Nixon, announced a program of Vietnamization, which basically represented a return to the Eisenhower and Kennedy policies of helping Vietnamese forces fight the war, Nixon gradually reduced U.S. ground troops in Viet...

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Vietnam was not a major issue yet when President John F. Kennedy took office in 1961. ... Soon after this, in the same year, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while he was riding through the streets of Dallas, Texas. After President Kennedy died, his Vice President Lyndon B. ...

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