Which statement BEST explains Eisenhower’s viewpoint on the role of the U.S. military during the Vietnam War?
You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.
—President Dwight Eisenhower, 1954

1. to improve trade relations with Asian mainland countries
2. to expand humanitarian aid programs within Asiato contain the spread of communism throughout Asia
3. to minimize domestic job loss to Asian labor markets