While the left is attacking President Trump on talks of sending federal troops to out of control cities ..
Missing from their outrage is an inconvenient history!
The deployment of regular army troops to Chicago, (and others) to control civil disorder by Democrat President Johnson!
Guard Sent into Chicago, Detroit, BostonApril 6, 1968By
BEN A. FRANKLINSpecial to The New York TimesWASHINGTON, April 5 -- President Johnson ordered 4,000 regular Army and National Guard troops into the nation's capital tonight to try to end riotous looting, burglarizing and burning by roving bands of Negro youths.
The arson and looting began yesterday after the murder of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis.
The White House announced at 5 P.M. that because the President had determined that ``a condition of domestic violence and disorder'' existed, he had issued a proclamation and an Executive order mobilizing combat-equipped troops in Washington. Some of the troops were sent to guard the Capital and the White House.
Reinforcements numbering 2,500 riot-trained soldiers - a brigade of the 82d Airborne Division from Ft. Bragg, N.C. _ were airlifted to nearby Andrews Air Force Base, to be held in reserve this weekend.
It was the first time regular Army troops had been ordered into Washington for a civil disturbance since 1932, when cavalry under the late Gen. Douglas MacArthur drove hundreds of protesting bonus marchers from a squatters' encampment on the Anacostia River.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/040668race-ra.html
