Ford asks for additional aid
President Gerald Ford asks Congress for an additional 522 million in military aid for South Vietnam and Cambodia.He revealed that North Vietnam now had 289000 troops in South Vietnam and tanks heavy artillery and antiaircraft weapons by the hundreds.Ford succeeded Richard Nixon when he resigned the presidency in August 1974.
Despite his wishes to honor Nixons promise to come to the aid of South Vietnam he was faced with a hostile Congress who refused to appropriate military aid for South Vietnam and Cambodia both countries fell to the communists later in the year.
