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...tempo if not the direction of the talks may have been presaged by the arrival in Paris of Le Duc Tho, who ranks seventh in the North's all-powerful Communist Politburo and is the most important party theoretician after Ho Chi Minh himself. Born in Tonkin, Tho helped Ho found the Indo-Chinese Communist Party in 1929, served long sentences at penal labor under the French, and lived for many years in the South. Harddriving, ascetic and tough, Tho is believed to have purged the party in South Viet Nam of some 2,500 non-Communist nationalists...
...they say. And he has not introduced one major piece of legislation for social change in this country since he has been in office. But, you say, he was there at the right time, when his country needed him. Really, he was a few years late. He remembered Tonkin a few years late. There is New Hampshire, Gene McCarthy said, and I am here before anyone else, except maybe the anti-war movement...
Maddox, a 2,200-ton destroyer, left Yokosuka, Japan, July 23 on what seemed to be a routine mission to observe North Vietnamese naval activity in the Gulf of Tonkin. Stopping at Taiwan, she took aboard a "black box," about the size of a moving van, crammed with electronic gear, and about a dozen new men to tend its innards. What was it for? Defense Secretary Robert McNamara insisted at first that the equipment "consisted in essence" of normal radio receivers that gave the ship "added capacity" to detect indications of possible attack. In testimony released at week...
...many substantial questions remain unanswered. The Administration, argues Fulbright, "didn't have a clear call to war" and acted precipitately and with inadequate evidence in sending American planes to bomb North Viet Nam. Last week's testimony strongly suggests that the Administration did indeed overreact to the Tonkin incident as such. But it treated that incident as part of the larger scene, evidently using it as a welcome excuse for launching bombers over North Viet Nam. Whatever the strategic merits of attacking the North at the time-and many in the U.S. military thought them considerable-it might...
...authors, "clearly the framers intended to give the President the power to meet a sudden attack without a congressional declaration of war." In addition, Congress has ratified the SEATO Treaty, which provides for aid to member nations threatened by external forces, and it has passed the Tonkin Resolution, which even Senator William Fulbright conceded at the time gave the President the authority to use such force as could lead to war. Many U.S. Presidents have had much less support for their actions, notably Lincoln, who blockaded Southern ports without congressional consent...