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President Nixon Requests Increased Aid for South Vietnam

April 4, 1974

President Nguyen Van Thieu's Message to President Ford, August 21, 1974
President Nguyen Van Thieu's Message to President Ford, August 21, 1974
President Nguyen Van Thieu's Message to President Ford, August 21, 1974

As the political, economic, and military situations in South Vietnam rapidly deteriorate, President Nixon asks Congress to increase military aid to South Vietnam. The measure fails to pass the House of Representatives.1

1Spencer C. Tucker, Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 1998), 870; George C. Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975 (4th edition; New York, McGraw Hill, 2002), 329–31.