The Role Of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Participation In The Vietnam War

Although President Lyndon B. Johnson was considered a good leader, he portrayed himself as not being strategic when he dealt with the United States’ participation in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a conflict between North and South Vietnam that lasted from 1955 - 1975. North Vietnam was led by a Communist and nationalist government while the South was led by a non-Communist government headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. The Viet Cong, a Communist guerrilla force in the South, however, was fighting to overthrow the Diem government and they were being supported by the Communists in the North. Like Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy before him, President Johnson did not want Communism to spread to South Vietnam. Although President Johnson made