16. Three weeks before his assassination he ordered a draw down order of 3,000 troops from Vietnam
One of Johnson's first actions was to rescind this order as he was concerned about being painted as "soft on communism," by the Republican Party.
Kennedy had first spoken out against our involvement in Vietnam as early as 1948 and was very skeptical of our presence there from the beginning. He inherited Vietnam from Truman/Eisenhower as he had inherited the "bay of Pigs," fiasco from the Great Golfer.
He did a rare thing in politics after the invasion failed, he took responsibility. He also learned from the incident which I believe helped form his response to Russians in '62.
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