The military draft.
Chat with our AI personalities
People do NOT normally get upset about things (anything) when they are NOT involved. Once they are involved, they get upset. These people were upset: Doctors, lawyers, school teachers, fathers, uncles, sons, nephews, cousins, neighbors, home owners, newly weds, friends, STUDENTS, road workers, plumbers, Baseball players, football players, hockey players, golfers, surfers, bowlers, etc. etc. were being DRAFTED into the US Military to fight in Vietnam.
He wanted to end the stalemate and remove U.S. troops from Vietnam.
The high school students mutinously wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam wardoes it work?
The American Civil War (US Civil War) was not a declared war.
At its core, it was a battle between Democracy and Communism fronted by surrogates with South Vietnam , Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and the US representing the former, and North Vietnam, China and the USSR standing in for Communism. You also can't forget the Hmong, who fought against the Northern Vietnamese. The Hmong allied with the US.
He had been against American involvement before becoming president. He felt that taking out troops would be a defeat for the United States.