Vietnam if Nixon wins in '60

[Consciously Unconscious]

How would Vietnam have gone if Nixon had won in 1960 and been reelected in 1964? 

[barfbag]

I hope we wouldn't have been there or at least just long enough to get the job done and come home.

[MATTROSE94]

I think that an a scenerio where Nixon is elected in 1960 and re-elected in 1964 (or assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 and suceeded by Vice-President Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.) U.S. involvement in Vietnam would be similar to how it was during President Eisenhower's administration at least at first, but would still likely escalate to a major conflict by 1964 or 1965, possibly sooner if the coup against Diem still occurs in November of 1963. The events that led to U.S. involvement in Vietnam were already well in place long before 1960 and it would have been difficult to change course.

[RosettaStoned]

 Actually, if Nixon had won in 1960, we probably would have had a Cuban War, rather than a Vietnam War.