There were no troops in Vietnam, only advisors, who, when President Kennedy learned there had been thousands of deaths, was incensed. He signed NSAM 263 to bring home all of them by 1965. But we all know what happened to President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Thereafter Lyndon Baines Johnson issued NSAM 273 which overturned Kennedy's NS…
There were no troops in Vietnam, only advisors, who, when President Kennedy learned there had been thousands of deaths, was incensed. He signed NSAM 263 to bring home all of them by 1965. But we all know what happened to President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Thereafter Lyndon Baines Johnson issued NSAM 273 which overturned Kennedy's NSAM 263, and then lied to the American people to get the war started with troops engaged there, one of whom I knew, Richard Edward Dettrey.
There were no troops in Vietnam, only advisors, who, when President Kennedy learned there had been thousands of deaths, was incensed. He signed NSAM 263 to bring home all of them by 1965. But we all know what happened to President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Thereafter Lyndon Baines Johnson issued NSAM 273 which overturned Kennedy's NSAM 263, and then lied to the American people to get the war started with troops engaged there, one of whom I knew, Richard Edward Dettrey.