In response to Judson Duncan’s letter in the June 25 edition titled, “Administration of macho men,” I think Judson needs to check his facts.

Woodrow Wilson was considered a conservative Democrat like today’s conservatives who fight to win, unlike the liberal Democrats of today who are doing everything in their power to lose the war on terror.

FDR wanted to join the war in Europe, but Americans in the late ’30s were considered isolationists and wanted nothing to do with that war. It was only after the attack on Pearl Harbor and FDR’s declaration of war on Japan that Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S., and we got into the war.

Harry Truman did get us into Korea and, yes, Eisenhower was president at the end, but he didn’t cut and run. He forced an armistice through military advantage. It was Democrat John Kennedy who sent the first troops into Vietnam as advisers and not Eisenhower. Democrat Lyndon Johnson escalated the war, micromanaged and mismanaged it. Republican Richard Nixon wanted to win the war but, because of all the protest and unrest going on since 1968, decided to get us out honorably and initiated Operation Linebacker ll, to force the North Vietnamese government to enter into a cease fire agreement signed in 1973. In 1975, South Vietnam fell to North Vietnam after the democratically controlled House of Representatives voted to remove all funding and support.

Get your facts straight, Mr. Duncan.

David Gagnon, Lewiston