Eisenhower let's commies win Vietnam reunification elections in 1956, domestic impact?

Eisenhower would have faced relevant electoral backlash from abandoning Vietnam in 56

  • Yes

    Votes: 26 44.1%
  • No

    Votes: 33 55.9%

  • Total voters
    59

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Which he made into an American issue by arm-wrestling the French for supremacy there, no later than the end of 1955, during his first term. See this good reference on it:

"Using recently released archival materials from the United States and Europe, Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam explains how and why the United States came to assume control as the dominant western power in Vietnam during the 1950s. Acting on their conviction that American methods had a better chance of building a stable, noncommunist South Vietnamese nation, Eisenhower administration officials systematically ejected French military, economic, political, bureaucratic, and cultural institutions from Vietnam. Kathryn C. Statler examines diplomatic maneuvers in Paris, Washington, London, and Saigon to detail how Western alliance members sought to transform South Vietnam into a modern, westernized, and democratic ally but ultimately failed to counter the Communist threat. Abetted by South Vietnamese prime minister Ngo Dinh Diem, Americans in Washington, D.C., and Saigon undermined their French counterparts at every turn, resulting in the disappearance of a French presence by the time Kennedy assumed office." [but with the lion's share happening in 55 and 56]
Sure, I'm talking about public perception. Eisenhower has more warts than we think.
 
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