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so I was doing some reading on Battle of Dien Bien Phu, it seems that a number of Powerful Americans wanted Eisenhower to use force to break the siege, Vice-President Nixon was for using US troops on the ground but Ike said not with out the British, the rest is history, but Ike was a man in very poor health a year latter he'd have a major Heart attack and in 1957 he had a stroke, so what if in 1954 while the cabinet debates action in Dien Bien Phu he drops dead (heart attack, stroke whatever), Nixon is President and makes the call to send US troops to Vietnam, how does that all turn out?
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