1954, right after Ho Chi Minh won his country's independence from the French. It was Johnson who really blew it up into a full scale war, however.
Yes, the interstate highway system is what he deserves to have as his legacy, no doubt, that and the greatest economic boom we've ever had.
neither of which he had anything to do with
hey wait wasn't he the prez (up until Obama) that had sent troops into harms way more than any other?
mebbe you were too young then to remember?
And yet we had higter tax rates back then. I'm not an economic genius, like Boehner also said. I'm sure there was a good reason for JFK to lower tax rates. As for LBJ, most of us with cons. Dem roots wanted to WIN the damn war. Vets have stated how Ho wanted to work with us.
ya ever notice how all the Presidents go gray in office (except Reagan)
I think after they show them what's in that Hangar 75 miles from Vegas
the knowledge of it fries their brains?
How cold anyone even consider JFK unless they have been indoctrinated in revisionism.
JFK's administration was one failure after another.
JFK signs off on the Bay of Pigs invasion rejecting former President Eisenhower's warnings and advice.
Allowing the Berlin Wall going up.
JFK giving Khrushchev exactly what he wanted during the Cuban Missile Crises.
Rejecting former President Eisenhower's strategy in Southeast Asia and JFK thinking he could fall back to the 17th parallel and stop Communist expansion there.
And JFK's biggest mistake of them all, was when he signed off on the CIA backed military coups of removing the President Diem regime from power in the Republic of Vietnam that went wrong and Diem was executed and from that day on America owned Vietnam, it became America's problem. The end game being, 58,000 American dead.
Overall quality of how they did
How cold anyone even consider JFK unless they have been indoctrinated in revisionism.
JFK's administration was one failure after another.
JFK signs off on the Bay of Pigs invasion rejecting former President Eisenhower's warnings and advice.
Allowing the Berlin Wall going up.
JFK giving Khrushchev exactly what he wanted during the Cuban Missile Crises.
Rejecting former President Eisenhower's strategy in Southeast Asia and JFK thinking he could fall back to the 17th parallel and stop Communist expansion there.
And JFK's biggest mistake of them all, was when he signed off on the CIA backed military coups of removing the President Diem regime from power in the Republic of Vietnam that went wrong and Diem was executed and from that day on America owned Vietnam, it became America's problem. The end game being, 58,000 American dead.
yer so right the best thing he did for the country was to get blasted from the grassy knoll
yer so right the best thing he did for the country was to get blasted from the grassy knoll
Not that I'm trying to ignore your other points, but isn't what Khrushchev wanted were missiles in Cuba ?
No, Khrushchev put missiles in Cuba because NATO had missiles in Turkey aimed at the Soviet Union. Khrushchev wanted those missiles out of Turkey and JFK ordered the NATO missiles out of Turkey when Khrushchev said he would remove his missiles from Cuba. JFK insisted that this be kept a secret from the American people and Khrushchev concured. It remained a secret for twenty five years.
You have to remember that the Kennedy klan has a well established machine in place to protect the Kennedy legacy. But that machine is getting rusty and Teddy Kennedy is no longer around to see that machine is well oiled.
and when he got shot he lived
hah yeah JFK my posterior, The failed Bay of Pigs invasion nearly caused a nooclear exchange during the Cuban missile crisis.