Originally Posted by Ujest Shurly
Originally Posted by NW Ponderer
5) Eisenhower (not Nixon) created both the Vietnam crisis...

With everything else you have written in your above post. I have little issue or doubt. However, with Vietnam being one of my wars, I feel the need to point out the Vietnam War was caused by the failings of Woodrow Wilson at Versailles France at the end of WW I. Watch the first episode of Ken Burn's "The Vietnam War" documentary, available through Netflix. Yes Eisenhower, did expand or begin American involvement, by assisting the French at Dien Bien Phu, and Kennedy sent in the Advisors, and Johnson sent in the troops, and Nixon negotiated our out. Despite this, I still dislike Nixon; He was a Crook.
I don't object to your chronology, and Eisenhower is one of my favorite Presidents, but his failure, in my book, was interceding to prevent an election in South Vietnam. That, rather than Dien Bien Phu, is why I blame him for Vietnam. He sided with the colonialists.

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