Word: tonkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under way, Lyndon went on nationwide TV networks at 11:37 p.m. to deliver his somber message. "My fellow Americans: As President and Commander in Chief, it is my duty to report that renewed hostile actions against United States ships on the high seas in the Gulf of Tonkin have today required me to order the military forces of the United States to take action in reply . . . That reply is being given as 1 speak to you tonight. Air action is now in execution against gunboats and certain supporting facilities in North Viet Nam which have been used in these...
...rapid movement of naval and air units demonstrated the value of a flexible response capability in the U.S. military forces. So, of course, did the dramatic use of carrier airpower along the Gulf of Tonkin. That flexibility and the U.S. advantage in military technology are what made last week's firm U.S. military stance throughout Southeast Asia credible...
...Land. The adversary boasts power too. Red China has 2,500,000 troops to throw into land action. Most of that manpower is still positioned opposite Taiwan. Three armies (about 120,000 men) are near North Viet Nam, another on the island of Hainan in the Gulf of Tonkin. U.S. intelligence says that there has been no recent buildup in these southeast concentrations. The Red Chinese air force, with some 2,000 jet fighters and bombers, is one of the world's largest, but is hampered by shortages of parts and fuel. And her navy is weak...
...press conference that all of the military movements were "appropriate to the provocation." He summed up the air strike simply: "Our objective was to deter the PT-boat fleet from further attacks on our vessels. I believe we have accomplished that." President Johnson pointed out that "the Gulf of Tonkin may be distant, but none can be detached about what has happened there. Aggression-deliberate, willful and systematic aggression-has unmasked its face to the entire world. The world remembers, the world must never forget, that aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed...
...other hand, it could be argued that technically Johnson already had all the authority he needed without the resolution-as he had demonstrated so dramatically in the Gulf of Tonkin. The congressional support mainly punctuated the fact that the U.S. was united behind the President. At week's end U.S. forces around the world stood alert. And behind them stood their nation...