Public Opinion And The Vietnam War

“It is impossible to win a long protracted war without popular support” (The Antiwar Movement). The Antiwar movement had a significant impact on the United States Military, as the movement reflected the power of civilians in their government’s fighting force. In the beginning of the war, the United States Military had the support of its people in the pursuit to protect

Many of the democrats within the legislative branch turned against Johnson’s war. Scholar’s conflict on the reason why Johnson’s own party turned against him, some scholars attribute it to the growing number of antiwar constituents, while other scholars such as E.M. Schreiber, Burstein and Freudenburg cite the numerous deaths of American soldiers in combat. One democrat by the name of Eugene McCarthy labeled the entire Vietnam War as an “error” and describes the Johnson administration as “misguided.” McCarthy decides to run for President, but loses in the primaries by a slim margin to Johnson, further indicating that the antiwar movement was gaining significant momentum. Things were only beginning to get even worse as the Tet Offensive

The Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama in March of 2010. The Affordable Care Act was created by Barack Obama to help Begin the process to reform the health care system. By having the Affordable Care Act in place it will implement measures that will lower health care cost and Improve system efficiency. It will also help eliminate industry practices that will deny coverage due to pre-existing conditions which will be very helpful to people who have experienced that? There were more than 44 million people that did not have medical insurance because they couldn’t afford it. Having this law in place will be able to help those 44 million people get medical insurance. Before The Affordable Care Act was passed there were a lot of insurance companies that could deny people because of their insurance coverage right in the middle of them doing treatment? Which are ridiculous people who do not have

With every new election comes new legislature the 2008 election had to deal with the hot new topic the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA). Then when Barack Obama was elected into office, he wanted it to be changed to Obamacare. Obamacare and the ACA is relatively the same thing. It is referred to as Obamacare because he is the one who signed for it to be passed. Due to the stress that Obamacare has put on the elderly, state businesses and small local business’s think that the United States should discontinue Obamacare during the next administration.

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) is commonly referred to as Obamacare. This pseudo name or nickname initially assigned to the program as a criticism of now former President Obama's efforts to stabilize healthcare at a national level, but it has since become the most widely accepted for the ACA. There are many cited reasons for opposition to the program, including the concern it presents the US government with an unnecessary control of public healthcare benefits.

The Affordable Care Act which was known as ACA or “Obamacare.” was signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 23, 2010. The Affordable Care Act is the greatest renovation of the United States health-care system, and provide coverage for over 94% of Americans. The main key reforms

For the past seven years the American people have had something called Affordable Care Act or else known as Obamacare. The Affordable Care Act was signed into act by President Obama on March 23, 2010 . But, with the election of President Donald Trump we can see that the Obamacare Act can come to an end and be changed with the American Health Care Act, or as most Americans have labeled it as Trumpcare.

The Affordable Care Act, in other words “ObamaCare” has been a train-wreck of a bill that was rushed into law in March of 2010. This law is the basis of the 2008-2012 Democratic-lead government’s platform that would end up securing the 2012-2016 elections for them. This law was not, pushed so fervently to help the nation, as much as it was to help re-election bids. I believe that the Affordable Care act should be repealed, but not necessarily replaced. The whole principle of government mandated and managed health care is inherently flawed, as to do so, the government must lay out blanket regulations and requirements on both insurance companies and the common citizen, that in a lot of ways aren’t beneficial to

In the past years down to 2008 we the people have heard conflicting arguments about the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obama Care”. Obama Care is a health insurance plan ran by the federal government. A health insurance plan in which everyone in the United States is eligible to have weather you are rich, middle class, and even the starving, hurting, suffering poor people that don’t have enough money to even keep the clothes on their back. Health insurance is when you pay an insurance company a certain amount of money per month and if you were to ever get sick

Obamacare is for people whom do not have health insurance and that can sign up to get the Obamacare. Obamacare also has another name that is called Affordable Care Act. Affordable Care Act is a name for the health insurance plane that people can sign up for through their work. The government came out this law in 2010. Through a serendipitous series of political events and maneuvers the ACA became the law on March 23, 2010 and in final print, the law is 906 pages long. (Rudnicki, Armstrong, 2015). The Obamacare is stand for Affordable Care Act which is ACA. A sizeable minority of Americans do not understand that Obamacare is just another name for the Affordable Care Act (Dropp, Nyhan, 2017). There are many jobs that do offer the Obamacare health insurance to any employees. Affordable Care Act is also a great health insurance for many families in the United States. There are some people that think that the Obamacare and the ACA are different from each other. The late night host Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at people who thought Obamacare and the ACA were different, and similar examples spread on social media last month after congress paved the way for repeal (Dropp, Nyhan,

Whilst in 1965 the opposition was a minority, it was a growing minority. Yet Johnson also suffered pressure from `hawks' that criticised him for not escalating enough, stating America never used more than ½ its tactical air power in Vietnam. Karnow also notes that hard liners such as Senator John Stennis who believed America should mobilise its full military, reflected a significant element of public opinion . Nixon recognised the home front problem and used tactics to keep the opposition quiet. This included a withdrawal of 60,000 troops in 1969, Nixon believing he had little other choice. This demonstrates how public opposition to the war led foreign policy for the US and how public opinion was a strong influential factor for the eventual withdrawal. Examples of protest include Oct 1969, in which the largest anti war protest in American History took place. Protestors took to the streets in every major city. Radicals even waved VC flags. Nixon rightly claimed their `numbers were a minority, but their numbers were growing' . Another example of protests was on the 5th May 1970 in which 4 students at Kent State University, Ohio were shot dead by National Guard . As a result, Nixon backed down and declared he would get American troops out of Cambodia by June. This demonstrates again how govt. policy was made in the streets. Although Sanders points out the pro-Nixon public, which in response to Nixon's

Vietnam had a profound effect on american society. American society did not know what theirthere sons and husbandshusbans werewhere dying for. It was the war without reason. To understand why american society hated this war, you must understand why vietnam happened. Vietnam started 1945, when a man named Ho Chi Minh forms a provisional governmentgoverment and declares independence for vietnam.

American Public Opinion of the Vietnam War At the beginning of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, in 1965, the American Public favored the idea of war because they feared the threat of communism. Polls conducted in 1965, showed 80 percent of the population agreed with President Johnson and were for the war (Rousseau 11). The U.S. got involved with the war to stop communism from spreading throughout South Asia. Americans were afraid if one country on South Asia turned to communism, it would extend to other countries, which is known as the "Domino Theory".

The Vietnam War certainly left a distaste in the lives of many who have been affected by the war; scholars have become increasingly interested in the interaction between war and public opinion. There have been many scholarly works published on the Vietnam War, but the issue that will be analyzed here is how public opinion changed the course of the war. The first article by Scott Gartner and Gary Segura is titled, “Race, Casualties, and Opinion in the Vietnam War,” it examined how the diverse races within America in combination with the atrocities in the war led to the formation of opinions that were similar in one race but were different in another race. The second article by Paul Burstein and William Freudenburg titled, “The Impact of

Since the Vietnam War, the public's opinion has played major roles in how policymakers operate. Their opinions may not always support to choices which are best for the country, however they are still factored into the decision making. Richard Sobel discusses several cases on how the public's attitudes have affected policymaker's decisions in his book, "The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy Since Vietnam."