How do you think Kennedy would have handled the Vietnam war and civil rights movement?

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It would have been very bold for any President to cut and run in 1965 when LBJ started sending in thousands. Not many thought the war was unwinnable in 1965. Democrats still stung from "Truman lost China," too. JFK had the lesson from the Bay of Pigs, but that was a stupid mission on its face.

About Civil Right, I don't think Kennedy couldn't have gotten it through. It would have been watered down somehow.