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The Air Base was attacted in Jan. 1967
By ordering a ground attack on Vietcong bases in Cambodia
President Lyndon Baines Johnson died of a massive heart attack on January 22, 1973.
The Vietcong were masters at guerrilla warfare. They would come and attack by surprise, then retreat before we had a chance to fight back.
congress
President Johnson wanted to respond to a North Vietnamese attack on an American warship.
Lyndon Johnson
There was an apparent attack on US ships by the North Vietnamese Navy in the Gulf of Tonkin in July, 1964. LBJ pushed for a US military response against the North. On August 7, Congress authorized the President to commit US aircraft and ground troops to the war, which still consisted mainly of the guerrilla war in the South.
Disrupt the airfield (by making holes in it) and destroying parked aircraft.
response
announce in September 1915 that submarine commanders would not attack passenger vessels without warning.
The national response to the Attack on Lawrence in 1856, which was part of the "Bleeding Kansas" conflict, was mixed. President Franklin Pierce initially viewed the incident as a local issue and did not intervene. However, the attack helped to further highlight the tensions between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States, contributing to the lead-up to the Civil War.