pood
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JFK in fact signed an order just before he died, directing a reduction in troops in Vietnam by a certain date, but the withdrawal was contingent on South Vietnam’s army and government meeting certain benchmarks of progress in the fight against the north. LBJ countermanded that order on taking office. Although the latter called Vietnam “the biggest damned mess I’ve ever seen” in a phone call with Sen. Richard Russell, he also stated shortly after taking office that he had no intention of being the first president to lose a war. The rest is history, as they say.