# Had he lived, JFK would not have withdrawn the US from Viet-Nam **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 28, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-he-lived-jfk-would-not-have-withdrawn-the-us-from-viet-nam/987749 "2023-07-28T20:38:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-he-lived-jfk-would-not-have-withdrawn-the-us-from-viet-nam/987749/28 "2023-07-29T20:57:39Z")
I also agree that JFK would not have withdrawn from Vietnam. In his last interview her was all over the place on the subject. This thread reminds me of a post in another thread, from 12 years ago, on a detail I missed in The March of Folly > [@JFK](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk/591128/17): > > Historian Barbara Tuchman, in _The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam_, notes that Kennedy sent a special envoy, whom he trusted, to Vietnam, to survey the situation and report back on whether the US should get involved. The envoy’s report was decidedly against any US involvement. > > So he sent a _second_ envoy. That one, too, reported that the US should stay out. So he sent a third one. [That one burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/quotes) But the fourth one…well, he too reported that it would harm the US to get involved. > > And so on and so on, until **seven** trusted “best and brightest” analysts had _unanimously_ recommended NOT getting involved in France’s colonial quagmire. > > So Kennedy decided to get involved. There’s a reason the book is called _The March of Folly._ --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-he-lived-jfk-would-not-have-withdrawn-the-us-from-viet-nam/987749)._