Which US president ended his country's participation in the Vietnam War?
1965 in the Vietnam War commitment to combat of U.S. ground troops." The Pentagon endorsed Westmoreland's request for additional soldiers which would bring the total of American military personnel in Vietnam up to 117,000, plus 20,000 third-country troops, by November 1. General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was appointed by the military junta as President of South Vietnam. Senator J. William Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations said on national television that the U.S. should negotiate directly with North Vietnam and make "major concessions" to end the Vietnam War. Fulbright's statement was criticized by prominent Republicans; former Vice President Richard Nixon said that negotiations
1964 in the Vietnam War the ground rules" by targeting a U.S. installation. He advocated a reprisal. President Lyndon Johnson won a landslide victory over his Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater, in the Presidential election. Johnson was perceived as the more moderate candidate on issues including the use of U.S. military forces in Vietnam. From Saigon, Ambassador Maxwell Taylor cabled Washington with his views. Perhaps former President Kennedy's most influential adviser on Vietnam, Taylor favored the U.S. expanding its participation in the war against the Viet Cong and expanding the war to North Vietnam, even if the government of South Vietnam never became competent — advocating