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Sandra Edwards's avatar

Wasn't Gerald Ford President when the war ended?

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Rick Reynolds's avatar

But Saigon fell to the brutish totalitarians from the North in 1975.

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Jack Miller's avatar

The war officially ended March 29, 1973 and Nixon left office August of 1974.

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Kenneth Haynes's avatar

Then Kennedy and Eisenhower would be excluded since didn’t officially start until 1965.

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Mike Yochim's avatar

No, it was Nixon.

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Bill Eggert's avatar

Add Gerald Ford...took office April 9, 1974 when Nixon exited.

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Robert F Shay's avatar

If the ear ended i1975, then Gerald Ford, also felt with Vietnam

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gerald LEBLANC's avatar

We had Advisors (Special Forces) in Combat there as early as the late 50s with the first American death in combat (SF) in 1962.

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Tom Durham's avatar

We also had “advisors” helping the French colonialists vs. the Viet Minh during the Truman administration in the late 1940’s.

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James M Airesman's avatar

Thankyou Tara.

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Shirley Andre's avatar

THANK YOU Tara Ross - always interesting and today and each of your posts brings great comments.

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Ron Wilson's avatar

What about Ford.. he succeeded Nixon in 1974?

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Jack Miller's avatar

Cannot quote but remember reading the CIA was in Vietnam in 1954 and accompanied by Special Forces at times. The beginning and end of this terrible war in our history will always be in dispute because of differing points of view. There are official dates established.

Great questions Tara. Thank you.

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Dory Wiley's avatar

I’d throw in Truman as we started to get involved with CIA

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Kenneth Haynes's avatar

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977.

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Bill Bodine's avatar

Ford was in office when the North Vietnamese overran the South Vietnam (and our Embassy there). This happened because the Democrats in Congress refused to live up to our treaty commitment resupply the south. Ford most definitely dealt with the issues of the Vietnam war—not to mention the mass exodus/migration of South Vietnamese seeking to avoid extermination by (Commie scum) of the north

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Johnny Baker Jr. MLA's avatar

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Ron Moore's avatar

Not classed as combat troops, but as “advisors”, there were 11,000 Special Forces and support personnel in South Vietnam during 1962. Under John F. Kennedy’s administration.

https://www.jfklibrary.org/sites/default/files/2018-07/JFKandVietnamLessonPlan.pdf?odc=20180704105434-0400

Page 2, paragraph 2.

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