- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, plunged to -26 degrees on Jan. 17, their coldest temperature in 111 years. - Montgomery, Alabama (-2), Jackson, Mississippi (-5), and Atlanta (-5) each plunged below zero. - Snow at rush hour on Jan. 11 slickened streets, stranding motorists in Atlanta.
The American public was incensed, and Johnson requested from Congress the authority to take âall necessary stepsâ to protect U.S. interests in Vietnam. Congress complied and passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in August 1964.
in the 1968 election republican richard nixon claimed to have a plan to end the war in vietnam but in fact it took him five years to disengage the united states from vietnamindeed richard nixon presided over as many years of war in indochina as did johnsonn the 1968 election republican richard nixon claimed to have a plan to end the war in vietnam but in fact it took him five years to disengage the united states from vietnam