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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gary E who wrote (169796)	8/10/2001 10:37:45 AM
From: H-Man	Respond to of 769667

JFK was the first president to send troops that were really involved in combat. The first president to send anybody to Vietnam (then Indochina) was FDR. (Previous posts have background on that.) Harry Truman sent aid to the French along with support personnel in 1950, and Ike continued that program, increasing the amount of aid. The troops JFK sent in 1961 (and subsequently) were actually doing combat training of South Vietnamese personell and accompanying them on combat patrols. We had some 16,000 troops there by the end of 1963. Most people veiw that as the point where we really entered the war. If someone wants to view it differently, and say we entered when we started providing aid, that would be 1950.