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To: KLP who wrote (97969)	2/1/2005 6:30:35 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (3) of 793568

Did JFK have an exit strategy when he sent troops into Vietnam....? No! Our participation in Southeast Asia actually began under Ike when he sent Special Forces to Laos in the 50s. Later when Laos was declared neutral by the UN, Ike sent some of those teams home and some to S Vietnam. JFK was Pres for the first 18 months I was in SF. I remember well that JFK widened our participation and expanded our military role in Vietnam on a monthly basis until his assassination. LBJ continued that expansion for five more years before he quit in January 1969. Throughout JFK and LBJ's tours as POTUS there was never any discussion about bringing troops home. The only discussion was about how many more men to send. The two of them raised our level of participation from no more than 12 A Teams in the early 60s to 536,100 men in 1968.

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