President Gerald Ford asks Congress for an additional $522 million in military aid for South Vietnam and Cambodia. He revealed that North Vietnam now had 289,000 troops in South Vietnam, and tanks, heavy artillery, and antiaircraft weapons "by the hundreds." Ford succeeded Richard Nixon when he resigned the presidency in August 1974. Despite his wishes to honor Nixon's promise to come to the aid of South Vietnam, he was faced with a hostile Congress who refused to appropriate military aid for South Vietnam and Cambodia; both countries fell to the communists later in the year.
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Jan 28, 1975:
Ford asks for additional aid
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This Week in History, Jan 28 - Feb 3
- Jan 28, 1973
- Cease-fire goes into effect
- Jan 28, 1975
- Ford asks for additional aid
- Jan 29, 1968
- President Johnson requests additional funds
- Jan 29, 1974
- Fighting continues in South Vietnam
- Jan 30, 1968
- Tet Offensive begins
- Jan 30, 1971
- Operation Dewey Canyon II begins
- Jan 31, 1968
- Viet Cong attack U.S. Embassy
- Jan 31, 1972
- North Vietnam presents nine-point peace proposal
- Feb 01, 1964
- Operation Plan 34A commences
- Feb 01, 1968
- Nixon announces his candidacy for president
- Feb 02, 1962
- First U.S. Air Force plane crashes in South Vietnam.
- Feb 02, 1970
- Antiwar protestors sue Dow Chemical
- Feb 03, 1955
- Diem institutes limited agrarian reforms
- Feb 03, 1970
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings
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