http://informedvote.ca/2010/01/26/john-f-kennedy-vietnam-his-greatest-legacy-was-not-his-stylish-clothes-or-his-eloquent-speeches-but-his-restraint-wise-judgment-in-foreign-affairs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=john-f-kennedy-vietnam-his-greatest-legacy-was-not-his-stylish-clothes-or-his-eloquent-speeches-but-his-restraint-wise-judgment-in-foreign-affairs Informed Vote (informedvote.ca) will keep Canadian voters informed on Canadian Politics such as Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Green, as well as foreign issues like the Israel palestine conflict and local issues like the CUPE strike Sun, 04 Dec 2011 07:31:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://informedvote.ca/2010/01/26/john-f-kennedy-vietnam-his-greatest-legacy-was-not-his-stylish-clothes-or-his-eloquent-speeches-but-his-restraint-wise-judgment-in-foreign-affairs/comment-page-1/#comment-5524 Connie Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:38:00 +0000 http://informedvote.ca/?p=2388#comment-5524 I have always been curious as to our involvement in Vietnam and it's beginnings. My first impressions were or course the news of the late 60s and early 70s and Hollywood movies. My curiosities were more towards President Kennedy and his policies because they preceded President Johnson's escalation. Kennedy would have had to make a tough decision at some point and therein lies the question on what he would have done. If you listen to his inaugural address it seems to me of course he would have continued supporting South Vietnam. Then I have read opinions of people that knew him that he would have withdrawn. I still don't know which way he would have gone had he lived but how would history show him had he lived? We wouldn't have had all those deaths that followed after his assassination, had he pulled out, but of course we would never have known that. Had he lived and escalated the fight like his successor he may have gone down as a failed president. It's hard to guess since all of us lived through the history that people from the early 60s couldn't see. I have always been curious as to our involvement in Vietnam and it’s beginnings. My first impressions were or course the news of the late 60s and early 70s and Hollywood movies. My curiosities were more towards President Kennedy and his policies because they preceded President Johnson’s escalation. Kennedy would have had to make a tough decision at some point and therein lies the question on what he would have done. If you listen to his inaugural address it seems to me of course he would have continued supporting South Vietnam. Then I have read opinions of people that knew him that he would have withdrawn. I still don’t know which way he would have gone had he lived but how would history show him had he lived? We wouldn’t have had all those deaths that followed after his assassination, had he pulled out, but of course we would never have known that. Had he lived and escalated the fight like his successor he may have gone down as a failed president. It’s hard to guess since all of us lived through the history that people from the early 60s couldn’t see.

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