Word: tonkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow Amurricun," I am appalled at the President's apparent concept of "judicious restraint" applied this week in the Gulf of Tonkin. If a neighbor's child hits yours, do you cut off your neighbor's hand-and then proudly proclaim your "limited and fitting response" because you didn't kill both parents? I am disappointed that my country has chosen to play the role of the strong young father stomping around the world with a bomb on his shoulder...
When North Vietnamese PT boats attacked American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin for the second time last Tuesday, it was instantly clear that our previously planned cover on another subject had to be scrapped. To tell about the new crisis in Asia, any number of individuals were suitable for the cover, beginning with the President of the United States, who made the decision to strike back at North Viet Nam. By Wednesday noon, however, we had settled on the U.S. supreme commander in the Pacific, who bears immediate responsibility for the operations and the massive buildup in his vast...