What were the differences between Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's approaches to the Vietnam conflict?

There were differences between President Johnson’s approach and President Nixon’s approach to the Vietnam War. President Johnson used the alleged incident in the Gulf of Tonkin to escalate our involvement in this war. We went from having a small number of ground troops in 1963 to having over 500,000 ground troops at our maximum level in 1968. President Johnson increased our involvement and the number of our ground troops during his presidency.

President Nixon pledged...

There were differences between President Johnson’s approach and President Nixon’s approach to the Vietnam War. President Johnson used the alleged incident in the Gulf of Tonkin to escalate our involvement in this war. We went from having a small number of ground troops in 1963 to having over 500,000 ground troops at our maximum level in 1968. President Johnson increased our involvement and the number of our ground troops during his presidency.

President Nixon pledged to get us out of Vietnam when he ran for office. His plan was designed to gradually turn the fighting over to the South Vietnamese army while gradually pulling our troops out of Vietnam. While he did expand the war into Cambodia, this was purely a strategy to cut the supply lines the North Vietnamese used to get military supplies to their soldiers fighting in South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese had been using Cambodia to do this. President Nixon was eventually able to withdraw our troops from South Vietnam in 1973.

President Johnson and President Nixon had different approaches in dealing with the Vietnam War.