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“Not Easily Pinned Down” (1964) By Eddie Germano

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Title:	“Not Easily Pinned Down” (1964) By Eddie Germano
Artist:	Eddie Germano (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	290
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Added to Site:	5/1/2019
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“Not Easily Pinned Down” (1964)
By Eddie Germano (1924 - )
11 x 15, ink and wash on board

A native Bostonian, Germano became a full-time cartoonist in 1948, at age 24, after serving in WWII. Among other positions, he worked as the editorial and sports cartoonist for the Brockton Enterprise from 1963-1990.

The date on the back of this one says 1964. The communist dragon is more likely to be China than the Soviets. One of the biggest, and in retrospect one of the most important, events in the emerging war in SE Asia was the Gulf of Tonkin incidents in early August, 1964.

The debate about US participation was in the air. Former Vice President Richard Nixon had just published an article in the Reader's Digest titled "Needed in Vietnam: The Will to Win." Nixon accused the Johnson administration of compromise, weakness, and inconsistency. He said that the US should use its military power "to win this crucial war -- and win it decisively." In public statements Nixon said that the US should "take a tougher line toward Communism in Asia" and expand the war to North Vietnam and Laos.

At Tonkin, two US destroyers were reputedly fired upon by the North Vietnamese: once on August 2, then again on August 4. President Johnson informed Congress that he was ordering retaliatory air strikes. China ordered its military forces near the border with North Vietnam to be in a state of readiness and to "be ready to cope with any possible sudden attack" by the United States, declaring on August 6 that "aggression by the United States against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) means aggression against China. China will not stand idly by without lending a helping hand,” which it did.

On August 10, the US Congress voted on the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizing the President "to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom. The House voted it in unanimously, 416-0, and the Senate approved it in an 88-2 vote.

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