"Kennedy got us into the war and Nixon ended it"- True, but how misleadingly simplistic. Kennedy, I understand, had sent 'military advisors'. When LBJ took over, at that point the whole thing could have, should have been rethought.

Nixon got us out...? One reason, I believe, that Nixon won the presidency in the first place is that he said he had a plan. Some plan. Before he got finished, before he 'saved' Viet Nam villages by destroying them, he had extended the war into neighboring countries. It was a totally illegal action and one for which he was never brought to account.

Because of that whole era, I learned to be wary for all time of the indefensible concept of 'throwing good money after bad', of the idea that you can't stop now because you've lost too much already.

Carter formally granting amnesty to the defectors was about as clear an acknowledgment of previous governmental misjudgment as one could expect from any president.

Ebbie