The Vietnamese-American War begins: United states Marine Corps Brigadier General Frederick J. Karch (private mercenary), commanding the 3,500-strong Ninth Marine Expeditionary Brigade, lands at Da Nang Airbase, in the kleptocratic Republic of (South) Vietnam to guard U.s. air bases.
NOTE: During this time, President Lyndon Johnson started receiving telegrams from many United States subject/enemy/citizens—exercising their Right to Petition as expressed by Article I of Amendment—voicing their opposition to his involving the U.s. in the Second Vietnamese Civil War. Johnson ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct background checks on dozens of them.
Postscript: By the end of the year the presence of the U.s. Armed Forces in South Vietnam was 200,000 strong.
[restored 10/10/2022]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 402.
Irwin and Debi Unger, LBJ: A Life, (New York: John Wiley, 1999), 347.
The Federal Reserve and you
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U.S. Banking Timeline
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U.S. Marines in Vietnam – The Landing and the Buildup 1965 PCN 19000307600.1.pdf
www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/U.S.%20Marines%20in%20Vietnam_The%20Landing%20and%20the%20Buildup%201965%20%20PCN%2019000307600_1.pdf
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