Answer: In early August 1964, two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. In response to these reported incidents, President Lyndon B. Johnson requested permission from the U.S. Congress to increase the U.S. military presence in Indochina.
One reason the railroad company use chinese workers was that they can hire a lot of chinese workers and pay them for a cheap price . The second reason was that there were many of them looking for work .
