Who was the American President when the last of the troops stationed in Vietnam leave?
The answer to the question is President Gerald Ford. Kennedy started us getting serious, Johnson made it worse, Nixon made it very bad but set us up for leaving – Nixon resigned and in I believe April 1975, the last troops and ambassador left Saigon. You know historically speaking Vietnam will be looked at as a total failure in American Policy but you know what – it really wasn’t. People forget one of the main reasons we were in Vietnam was to stop the domino effect of the Communism spreading to Thailand – it never got to Thailand. Vietnam also helped break the Soviet/China alliance even further – China and Vietnam have been mortal enemies for Century. Many people forget and don’t realize, the closest the world ever came to World War 3, wasn’t the Cuban Missile Crisis but happened in 1978 and 1979 when China and Vietnam were actually fighting each other – the Soviets were going to come to the aid of the Vietnamese. The world was teetering on the brink of war – what role would the Ameri
