When Ike left office, we had about 900 men in Vietnam as advisors to the South Vietnamese Army. By the time JFD was killed, that number had risen to about 16,000.
Interesting too that we took over from the French. Probably French colonialism?
Vietnam was a Democrat Party war. LBJ deserves the lionshare of the blame, but JFK looked like he had every intention to start some crap in Vietnam. He had his fingerprints on the assassination of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem several weeks before his own demise to an assassin himself. JFK always gets a pass by historians because of his early death. Frankly, he would be preferable to any Democrat today, but let’s acknowledge the mistakes he made from the Bay of Pigs to Vietnam.