President Johnson
President Johnson is responsible for signing the House Joint Resolution 1145, also known as the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which expanded the president’s authority to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam. Johnson was the first to use the resolution as the legal rectification for their military policies in Vietnam. August 7th, 1964. Later Nixon would as well.
President Johnson
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Ho Chi Minh
In this photograph the United States troops are holding a photo of Ho Chi Minh, the organizer of the Indochinese communist party in 1930 and League for the Independence of Vietnam 1941. He also organized the Viet Cong in the late 1950’s.
Ho Chi Minh