Vincent Oshana

The Lyndon Johnson's war, because remember, the Vietnam War hit full speed within a year of Johnson being president.

And actually, practically before all of the national mourning over Kennedy was over, Johnson had already met with.

military leaders and strategists and elected to escalate what was going on in Vietnam.

So this had been going on for like years and years and years.

And finally, Pat, the U.S.

Congress is like, look, if we can't get a ceasefire, we can't get out of Vietnam and all these people are being drafted.

And, you know, you know, I had an uncle that went and didn't come back, unfortunately, and his name's on the Vietnam War.

wall there in Washington.

And so Congress came up, Pat, and said, OK, stop unless you have specific instructions and support and a vote that says, yes, we're declaring war, just like when

The president went before Congress and said, I want you to declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbor.

It was a very formal vote.

And the Congress said, yes, we're declaring war.

So it was all aligned.

And, you know, Vietnam was not aligned.

So all of this madness came together in 1973.

And they said, that's it.

A president can go 60 days if they have to do some sort of emergency act, some bad thing happen.

This is what goes on, Vinny.

You know what I mean?

The military has to respond and do something about something, and you can't wait for Congress and the navel-gazing, and you can't put your plans in public.