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His morally-grounded idealistic rhetoric gained him definite advantages. His arguments made him sound tough and pleased those with an equally hard-line position against communism in Southeast Asia. He could also use these arguments to justify and support his policies, such as when Congress threatened to reduce foreign aid. He insisted that foreign aid was an all-or-nothing proposition because principles were at stake. He pressed that Congress could provide all the aid he believed should be given or Congress must assume the responsibility and culpability in the event of a victory of Communism and the defeat of freedom in those nations at risk. He maintained that representatives and senators must make policy decision in the light of the larger moral consequences to which these policies would inevitably lead. At the Economic Club of New York in 1962, he commented that Vietnam would instantaneously collapse if the U.S. did not assist it. He consistently presented and idealistically argued that Vietnam as the conflict or a battle of principles and urged all citizens to commit themselves to an all-out support to that commitment. If they did not, they would then have to prepare for a communist victory, which would negate and...

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Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy all gave their word and best to the commitment to freedom in South Vietnam (Bostdorff and Goldzwig 1994). Their individual experience, personality and temperament played a role in this commitment. It was a commitment they and other U.S. Presidents could not abandon or neglect, as it put U.S. credibility at stake (Bostdorff and Goldzwig).

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Bostdorff, Denise and, Steven. Idealism and Pragmatism in American Foreign Policy.New York: Presidential Studies Quarterly. Vol 24 Issue 3, 1994

Eisenhower, Dwight. The Importance to the United States of the Security and Progress of Viet-Nam. Address at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, July 1967. http://mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/eisen.htm

Rotter, Andrew J. The Causes of the Vietnam War. The Oxford Companion to American Military History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. http://www.english.uuc.edu/maps/vietnam/causes.htm

Smitha, Frank E. The United States and Vietnam. Macrohistory, 2005. http://www.smitha.com/h2/ch26.htm

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Bostdorff, Denise and, Steven. Idealism and Pragmatism in American Foreign Policy.New York: Presidential Studies Quarterly. Vol 24 Issue 3, 1994

Eisenhower, Dwight. The Importance to the United States of the Security and Progress of Viet-Nam. Address at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, July 1967. http://mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/eisen.htm

Rotter, Andrew J. The Causes of the Vietnam War. The Oxford Companion to American Military History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. http://www.english.uuc.edu/maps/vietnam/causes.htm

Smitha, Frank E. The United States and Vietnam. Macrohistory, 2005. http://www.smitha.com/h2/ch26.htm
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