Avoid US intervention in Vietnam.
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Any one of the following:
1) The Paris Peace Conference is slightly more successful. Perhaps Diem doesn't come to power?
2) Nixon wins the 1960 elections.
3) JFK isn't assassinated.
4) LBJ decides he can run the risk of not following JFK's lead in this regard.
5) The Gulf of Tonkin incidents happen differently leading to no eponymous Resolution.
1) The Paris Peace Conference is slightly more successful. Perhaps Diem doesn't come to power?
2) Nixon wins the 1960 elections.
3) JFK isn't assassinated.
4) LBJ decides he can run the risk of not following JFK's lead in this regard.
5) The Gulf of Tonkin incidents happen differently leading to no eponymous Resolution.
The US arranges some kind of deal between Ho and the French after WWII. Ho doesn't jump in bed with Stalin and Mao and we don't have a Communist problem on our hands.
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Have whomever is in the white house and foggy bottom not be so convinced of a need to save france's bacon. Instead have them reach out to Ho and do a deal - "We'll guarantee your unity and independence, offer you trade, and protection from China. In return, you offer us basing rights, tell Russia to get lost, and tone down the whole comintern shebang"
It would need Ho to be in the right mood, and there would need to be some personnel changes in the vietnamese high command(s) (N & S). I think the first is very possible, I think the later is the real tricky part.
French/US clients in the south would scream bloody murder, as would no few French. Of course in OTL we ended up supporting at least 1 coup in the south, and it's not like the US and France have the long deep and abiding mutual admiration - regular allies of convenience is different than kindred spirits - so I'm not sure those are dealbreakers.
It would need Ho to be in the right mood, and there would need to be some personnel changes in the vietnamese high command(s) (N & S). I think the first is very possible, I think the later is the real tricky part.
French/US clients in the south would scream bloody murder, as would no few French. Of course in OTL we ended up supporting at least 1 coup in the south, and it's not like the US and France have the long deep and abiding mutual admiration - regular allies of convenience is different than kindred spirits - so I'm not sure those are dealbreakers.
One of: Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, or Nelson Rockefeller win in their respective parties primaries and go on to win the Presidency.
(Nicomacheus took all the easy ones.)
(Nicomacheus took all the easy ones.)