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July 13 – Secretary of Defense Clifford rejects immediate cease-fire in Vietnam alongside charging North Vietnam with doubling down on its war effort. [162] July 15 – President Johnson signs S. 1401 in the East Room during the morning. The legislation doubles the Land and Water Conservation Fund to 200 million over the course of the next ...
Country/ U.S. state Areas visited Dates Details Image Nebraska: Omaha, Papillion: January 13 President Obama delivered a speech at the University of Nebraska Omaha's Baxter Arena discussing the economic progress the state had made under his leadership and the "agenda for his remaining year — and the years to come — to keep it going," following his final State of the Union Address. [1]
December 2 – The House votes 333 to 55 in favor of President Nixon's peace resolution in Vietnam during the evening. [ 174 ] December 9 – President Nixon instructs Secretary of State William Rogers to formulate the Rogers Plan , a framework to achieve an end to belligerence in the Arab–Israeli conflict following the Six-Day War and the ...
During "Gold Week" in September 1945, a large part of gold taels, jewelry and coins were used pay the Chinese forces occupying northern Vietnam. Rice to Cochinchina by the French in October 1945 were divided by Ho Chi Minh, and the northern Vietnamese only received one third while the Chinese soldiers were given two thirds.
2.1.1 Week 37. 2.1.2 Week 38. ... 31, 2017. For a complete itinerary of his ... Rose who was wounded in combat during Operation Tailwind in the Vietnam War.
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama, from January 1, 2016 to January 20, 2017.For his time as president-elect, see the presidential transition of Barack Obama; for a detailed account of his first months in office, see first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency; for a complete itinerary of his travels, see list of presidential trips made by Barack Obama.
Cover page for The Short Times G.I. underground newspaper published in Columbia, South Carolina from 1969 to 1972 by GIs United Against the War in Vietnam. In the late 1960s, Fred Gardner, a Harvard graduate, editor at Scientific American, ex-Army reservist and antiwar activist, began studying and writing about the emerging GI antiwar movement.
By 1967, North Vietnam was firing 25,000 tons of anti-aircraft ammunition a month. When President Johnson halted Rolling Thunder on 1 November 1968, this had grown to 400 radar sites, 8,050 anti-aircraft guns, 150 fighters (including reserves based in China), and 40 SA-2 Guideline missile sites.