But was he just pretending to just to get re-elected?
But like Obama promising to bring all the troops home in 2009 if he got elected. And then he ended up sending more troops there and bombing Libya.
JFK might have made a bigger mess of Vietnam than LBJ.
I think Dr. James Douglass makes a compelling case in
JFK and the Unspeakable that Kennedy was determined to withdraw from Vietnam after the election, because he had become convinced that the war was unwinnable.