JFK

Submitted by AlbertE. (United States), Jan 2, 2014 at 19:46

That course of events in Vietnam would probably have transpired almost exactly as they did with LBJ in the Presidency. JFK and his brother loved secret operations, Green Berets, CIA, etc. And did not want to look weak but wanted to play the tough guy all the time. Escalation and response to the North Vietnamese would have probably resulted more or less the same, even if JFK had lived.

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