"Norminn" wrote:
'Twas Kennedy who sent "advisors" to VN, around 1962 (and eight years
after France got it's a-- kicked out).

I was about 90% positive that was the case, but couldn't find any reference
to Nam on Kennedy's bio at the Whitehouse website
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html, so I assumed I had
to be mistaken.

Ah, well, that's what I get for trying to get my post up relatively quickly.
:-)

-D.