[slumber1]

do you think kennedy would have involved us as deeply in viet nam as johnson

There is no reason to think Kennedy would have done anything substantially different than Johnson did in Viet Nam. He had already increased our involvement from a few hundred advisers to over 16,000 troops He was facing accusations of being soft on communism. After the Cuban missile crisis it is highly unlikely that he would have backed down in Viet Nam.

[bigheadfred]

Recently opened White House taped conversations and other documents reveal a president who recognized the inherent dangers of military intervention in Vietnam and who had devised an exit strategy

Hmmmm....not that Bush and Obama did/didnt/wtf/owtfwc have exit strategies...maybe both of them only wanted to do as much damage to this country as possible and exit...stage left...only history will tell...because the people living/lived through it can't