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The Vietnam War and Watergate diminished the power of the President and increased the power of Congress. LBJ lied about the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and got the USA into a quagmire in Vietnam, which ended when the peace treaty was signed in 1973. It really ended when the USA gave up on South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in 1975. President Richard Nixon covered up what he knew about the break in of Democratic Party Offices at the Watergate Hotel in 1972 and was forced to resign in 1974. Vietnam and Watergate, LBJ and Richard Nixon, abused the power of the Presidency and the Congress took back some of the powers of the President of the USA, that the person who held the office had prior to 1964 and the lie that was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

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  • It divided the country politically and led to numerous civilian protests against the war.
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