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Johnson called North Vietnam a “fourth-rate, raggedy ass little country” (Sources C, D and E) - page 2
Keywords: gcse history coursework question four 4 johnson north vietnam war source c d e fourth rate raggedy ass quote
By exploiit on 19/06/2010
Level: GCSE Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
Page Number: 2 of 2 pages: 1 2and includes a number of important fields including “Social insurance”, “Education, welfare” and “Defence expenditure”. Both social insurance and education/welfare are imperatives in the American society and consequently should be the two areas in which the U.S. Government spends its most. However, neither of these fields obtained nearly as much attention as the cost of American defence. A staggering 41% of American spending was on its defence expenditure – 13% of which was used in the Vietnam War. This means that more money was offered to the conflict than American education and welfare. We begin to question; If Vietnam is little more than “fourth-rate”, why would America forfeit such expenses to the Vietnamese cause?
Unfortunately for the American public, President Johnson was not the only U.S. leader to get it wrong in Vietnam. Source E is a sardonic cartoon intended to criticise the stubborn nature of all five Presidents who served in office during the Vietnam War. It features Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford, each submitting to the idea that “Victory’s just around the corner”. The irony in this statement is blatant; Victory was never around the corner for America. It took five different leaders an eleven year period to attain no more than an armistice.
Each of these Presidents has failed, and they are presented as a total joke for their pompous attitudes.
Johnson clearly thought America’s authority far greater than that of Vietnam. To an extent, we can agree that American forces were far more advanced and better equipped than the Viet Cong. However, this gave Johnson no reason to believe that the Vietnamese were unable to defend themselves (especially as they had defeated the French and the Japanese), as is evident from the numerous contradictions provided by sources C, D and E.
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