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<blockquote data-quote="TedKennedy" data-source="post: 4173904" data-attributes="member: 25419"><p><h3><em>I'm not saying it's the same, but I always look at these events with suspicion, recalling Tonkin, The Lusitania, the Maine. </em></h3><h3></h3><h3></h3><h3>U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War: the Gulf of Tonkin and Escalation, 1964</h3><p>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. On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. This resolution became the legal basis for the Johnson and Nixon Administrations prosecution of the Vietnam War.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TedKennedy, post: 4173904, member: 25419"] [HEADING=2][I]I'm not saying it's the same, but I always look at these events with suspicion, recalling Tonkin, The Lusitania, the Maine. [/I][/HEADING] [HEADING=2][/HEADING] [HEADING=2][/HEADING] [HEADING=2]U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War: the Gulf of Tonkin and Escalation, 1964[/HEADING] 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. On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. This resolution became the legal basis for the Johnson and Nixon Administrations prosecution of the Vietnam War. [/QUOTE]
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