Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon all deepened U.S. involvement in the decades-long conflict.
Belgium is setting up a fund that would contribute to restart the temporarily suspended recovery of areas contaminated with agent orange sprayed by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War, the country's ambassador to Vietnam Karl Van den Bossche said, noting the plan was to turn the...
However, he applied for deferment, claiming that he had asthma when he was a teenager and did not experience combat during the Vietnam War. The above presidents utilized the years they would have spent on the battlefield to acquire higher education and begin careers that would lead to the ...
During the sorties more than twenty Vietnamese vessels were destroyed, while the oil depot became an inferno of flame and smoke. The events that took place in the Gulf of Tonkin added to years of tension between the United States and North Vietnam. United States Presidents Dwight D. ...
“I think calling in the National Guard to college campuses for so many people would recall what happened when that was done during the Vietnam War — and it didn’t end well,” Kaine said on “Meet the Press.” “There are other ways, using campus security, but also offering students...
TheVietnam Warwas the major political issue of both the 1968 and 1972 elections. Even though the term “October surprise” hadn’t been coined yet, the idea was very much a political phenomenon. In both 1968 and 1972, incumbent presidents tried to secure last-minute peace deals to swing th...
s Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, graduating in May 1968 with a B.S. in economics. While in college, Trump obtained four student draft deferments during the Vietnam War. In 1971, he was reclassified 4-F by his local draft board due to bone spurs, permanently disqualifying him ...
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To make his most extensive critique of Trump this year, Biden, a Democrat, chose an event to honor the late Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, a former presidential candidate, fighter pilot and Vietnam prisoner of war who Trump had denounced as "not a war hero." "There is...
My Interview with Dick Price at the LA Progressive BILL ASTORE MAY 16, 2025 Yesterday, I talked to Dick Price, a Vietnam War veteran, at the LA Progressive about the U.S. military, the Vietnam War, the all-volunteer military, media coverage, and why America just can’t stop making w...