This letter dated Augst 21, 1974 requests continued aid for South Vietnam. - President Ford took this letter to Congress to request more funding for an American ally fighting off communists.
The government of the Republic of Viet-Nam.
1974-08-21
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/gerald-ford.html">Gerald Ford 1974-77. - How would "peace with honor" be carried out?</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/">VIETNAM: A COLD WAR CASE STUDY</a>. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=North%20Vietnamese%20diplomatic%20documents#id=AE1428EA5272726BC11C636AD341D8BFF35B0B65">Ecosia search</a> / <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/uploads/4/9/5/2/49524313/4886537_orig.png">Source image 1</a> / <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/uploads/4/9/5/2/49524313/4957614_orig.png">Source image 2</a>).
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/uploads/4/9/5/2/49524313/4886537_orig.png">This letter dated Augst 21, 1974 requests continued aid for South Vietnam. - President Ford took this letter to Congress to request more funding for an American ally fighting off communists.</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/">VIETNAM: A COLD WAR CASE STUDY</a>.</li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/uploads/4/9/5/2/49524313/253863_orig.png?250">Anti-war protests continued into the mid-70s.  Notice the concern over George McGovern and Coretta Scott King (MLK's widow) as leaders who it speculates may be working for Hanoi.  If there are communists inside America, the war must go on.</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/">VIETNAM: A COLD WAR CASE STUDY</a>.</li></ul><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/uploads/4/9/5/2/49524313/3210052_orig.png?250">This press release by the Ford administration marked the end of American support and the evacuation of Saigon.</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/">VIETNAM: A COLD WAR CASE STUDY</a>.</li></ul><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/john-f-kennedy.html">John F. Kennedy 1961-63. - What caused the increase in "advisors" sent to Vietnam during the Kennedy administration?</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/">VIETNAM: A COLD WAR CASE STUDY</a>.
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/uploads/4/9/5/2/49524313/5132804_orig.png">Ambassador Lodge communicates that as of August of 1963 the Diem government has compromised its legitimacy by imposing martial law and using the military to attack Buddhist pagodas.  The advice is to support a coup that would unseat DiemC (1).</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/">VIETNAM: A COLD WAR CASE STUDY</a>.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/uploads/4/9/5/2/49524313/5092022_orig.png">Ambassador Lodge communicates that as of August of 1963 the Diem government has compromised its legitimacy by imposing martial law and using the military to attack Buddhist pagodas.  The advice is to support a coup that would unseat DiemC (2).</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/">VIETNAM: A COLD WAR CASE STUDY</a>.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/uploads/4/9/5/2/49524313/5754578_orig.png">Ambassador Lodge communicates that as of August of 1963 the Diem government has compromised its legitimacy by imposing martial law and using the military to attack Buddhist pagodas.  The advice is to support a coup that would unseat DiemC (3).</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/">VIETNAM: A COLD WAR CASE STUDY</a>.</li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/harry-truman.html">Harry Truman 1945-53. - What most influenced Truman's support of the French efforts in Indochina? - Background:  In this era, Harry Truman leads the United States out of WWII and into the Cold War.  His "get tough" policy with Stalin led to the economic support of both Greece and Turkey and the Marshall Plan.  Once Mao came to power in China and the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb, Truman was convinced to establish a "defensive perimeter" that would extend to Asia.  The Korean War became the first setting where American ground troops would do battle against communist aggression.</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coldwarvietnamwar.weebly.com/">VIETNAM: A COLD WAR CASE STUDY</a>.</li></ul>