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The United States, however, soon had its own turmoil. On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. A new president, Lyndon Johnson, took over for Kennedy and was as determined as his predecessors to stop the spread of communism in Asia. There is some debate about whether Kennedy would have taken the war in Vietnam in the same direction as Johnson. Considering, however, that Johnson retained the Kennedy cabinet and relied on them heavily with regards to Vietnam policy, it is safe to assume that regardless of the president, the war in Vietnam was going to grow throughout the 1960s.
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Anderson, David L., Editor. ''The Columbia History of the Vietnam War.'' New York, Columbia University Press, 2011.
Lawrence, Mark Atwood. ''The Vietnam War: A Concise History.'' New York: Oxford Press, 2008.
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