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History of Vietnam writes on 2008-01-25 18:06:12
United States involvement in the Vietnam War lasted for two decades, through the administrations of five presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and Gerald Ford, who brought it to an end on April 29, 1976, with his order for evacuation of the American Embassy in Saigon, after the fall of the city to North Vietnam forces. Characterized as a battle against Communist takeover of Southeast Asia, the war found early support from Congress and the public through most of its first decade. But by 1966, when youth activists began questioning and protesting against United States involvement, they framed a ten-year debate on the underlying national political and social issues laid bare by the conflict: unfairness and inequities of the military draft, racial discrimination, poverty, and official deceit. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI called the protesters "Marxists," whose aim, he said, was to destroy democracy.
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