John F. Kennedy was the Democratic President at the time of our first military involvement in Vietnam. After his assassination in 1963, Lyndon Johnson took over for the remainder of Kennedy's term and was elected for four more years in 1964. President Kennedy believed that the way to win the war in Vietnam was by using advisors to train and equip the South Vietnamese troops. ... This shows that we put the most troops and resources into winning the war after the Tet Offensive, ultimately failing in this attempt. ...

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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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