Vietnam and the Johnson Administration

The Vietnam War brought great tribulation to Americans domestically and abroad. During the climax of the war, our president, Lyndon Johnson, was forced to make many vital decisions regarding our foreign policy and actions taken in the war abroad. Although facts and figures would dictate that America during the time out powered the North Vietnamese, Johnson's political beliefs and military strategies were bound to fail for the reasons that America was becoming a puppet of …

…South Vietnam, and did not want to loose it to a Communist country. There are many sides to the story of what was right and wrong; however, President Johnson did have a lot of pressure set upon him. It could have been predicted that his policy would be doomed. America, in the long run however, made up for the poor thinking of some, and the inevitability of the events that occurred during the Vietnam War.