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Swath and the flooding is far larger than katrina. far larger than sandy. so if we go on a parallel standard, it should be far in excess of that amount. >> sandra: will congress act quickly to approve this? >> we don't know what the aid request is going to be. we do have to ask a question, what portion of this will be handled by state government, local government, what portion will be handled by insurers or private entitys? what portion will be congress responsibility? right now people are still suffering. right now the flood disaster is still unfolding so that's where our focus needs to be. w...

The senate foreign relations committee, at the time, they actually, physically got up and walked over to the white house and sat down in the cabinet room at the white house and demanded to speak with president ford about this aid request and why they were saying no. they said they basically were not going to restart the war in vietnam, no matter what was going on there. senator jacob javits of new york told president ford that day, in this remarkable meeting in the cabinet room at the white house, which the senate foreign relations committee, armed services committee, invited themselves to, ja...

Congress looked at that request and balked. they said, no, no way. the senate foreign relations committee, at the time, they actually, physically got up and walked over to the white house and sat down in the cabinet room at the white house and demanded to speak with president ford about this aid request and why they were saying no. they said they basically were not going to restart the war in vietnam, no matter what was going on there. senator jacob javits of new york told president ford that day, in this remarkable meeting, in the cabinet room at the white house, which the senate foreign rela...

Few thousand u.s. personnel of various kinds based at the embassy there. but when congress in 1975, when they lacked at the size of president ford's aid request, he was asking for $750 million for south vietnam. congress looked at that request and balked. they said, no, no way. the senate foreign relations committee, at the time, they actually, physically got up and walked over to the white house and sat down in the cabinet room at the white house and demanded to speak with president ford about this aid request and why they were saying no. they said they basically were not going to restart the...

That made gerald ford into the president of the united states, even though no group larger than his congressional district back home in michigan had ever elected him to anything. in april 1975, two years after the u.s. had pulled out our troops from vietnam, when it was becoming clear that south vietnam was about to lose the war, they were about to be conquered by the communists in the north, president ford in april 1975, he went to congress and he asked congress for a big new round of aid, to try to prop up south vietnam in the face of all of this obvious evidence that they were about to lose...