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Originally Posted by Billybob
In fact it was Truman who started us on the road when in "September 1950 - Truman sends the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) Indochina to Vietnam to assist the French. The President claimed they were not sent as combat troops, but to supervise the use of $10 million worth of US military equipment to support the French in their effort to fight the Viet Minh forces."
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Like I said, a bi-partisan effort. No one, (R) or (D) was going to be caught looking soft on communism. If it was such an exclusively (D) effort, why didn't Ike move hard away from it? Or Nixon, instead of escalating it?