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Pastimes : JFK Jr., Is this an assasination?
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To: FlatTaxMan who wrote (134)7/24/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) of 542
 
The decision to escalate the war was already made before Kennedy died. Their view was that there was no other way to keep the South Vietnamese regimes (of which there were a succession of progressively weaker governments) from completely collapsing. (IMO, both the Republicans and the Democrats would've escalated the war. - that was a major campaign issue in 1964.)

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As for the escalation of bombing, Johnson and Nixon were trying to negotiate to a similar stalemate position as in South Korea. As with Korea, there was fear that the Chinese and also the Russians would enter into the war which limited U.S. options.
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