In his campaign Johnson promised American voters "that American boys would not fight Asian boys in Vietnam." (Hargrove 116) However, once elected Johnson escalated the war with Vietnam even though public sentiment was against such action (Hargrove 123). ... If Roosevelt's intention was indeed to pull the United States into a war abroad, he succeeded. ... For example, Johnson used misinformation to continue his war in Vietnam. At the time that Johnson was involving the United States in the Vietnam War he was also trying to pass much of the legislation for his Great Society (Neustadt 210). ...

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Kennedy sent 16,000 American military "advisers" to Vietnam. The southern based republic of Vietnam was in desperate need of help against the Viet Cong, which was the Communist funded North Vietnamese. This was actually the beginning of two wars. ... He increased the United States troops and started a plan to bomb the North Vietnam area. ... All this support was for naught though, fore in January of 1973, a truce was signed in Vietnam and the United States withdrew their troops and involvement as Vietnam was taken over by the northern Communist government. ...

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In his campaign Johnson promised American voters "that American boys would not fight Asian boys in Vietnam." (Hargrove 116) However, once elected Johnson escalated the war with Vietnam even though public sentiment was against such action (Hargrove 123). ... If Roosevelt's intention was indeed to pull the United States into a war abroad, he succeeded. ... For example, Johnson used misinformation to continue his war in Vietnam. At the time that Johnson was involving the United States in the Vietnam War he was also trying to pass much of the legislation for his Great Society (Neustadt 210). ...

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The first element was his war on poverty. ... During the war in Vietnam critics of Johnson felt that he didn't know how to handle foreign policy and that he wouldn't do well regarding a war with a foreign country. ... New Left critiqued the Vietnam War as America intervening in international affairs, and felt that the war was unjust and unwarranted. Johnson's liberalism misled him in intervening in Vietnam because he was a president that really wanted to help the people. ... In Vietnam, he went to war for people at too great a cost of his own. ...

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This was an example of the fight of the cold war. ... During the Cold war fight against communism many groups began to demand rights. ... A Zuni veteran of World War II and the Korean War argued termination policies and stated to a congressional committee, "Gentlemen, this is supposed to be a land of freedom. ... Native Americans won the fight against termination legislation but in the end they lost the war. ... In the past Colonists fought for independence under the same principles Native Americans fought for theirs, along with incidents in Vietnam and the ...

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What is affirmative action? Affirmative action is defined as a tool to monitor the consequences of employment practices. Affirmative action analyses determine whether employment practices result in a diverse applicant pool. The following quote by the former United States Secretary of Labor, Robert R...

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Although the policy was not introduced on a national level until the 1960's, the need to take positive steps to rectify discrimination's impact has been recognized since the Civil War. ... Employment of minorities increased greatly in these industries until to 1945, when the world saw the end of World War II. ... One of the most revered presidents in history had been brutally assassinated just a year earlier, the demand for equal rights was greater than ever before, and to cap it off, America was about to declare war on Vietnam. ...

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