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...Navy task force of more than 20 vessels gathered in the Gulf of Tonkin last week for the start of one of the nation's first big postwar missions. Code-named "Endsweep," the operation will search out and destroy the thousands of mines that the U.S. laid down last May to cut off shipping to Haiphong and six other North Vietnamese ports...
...twaddle you have been printing. U.S. involvement in Vietnam started long before 1964, but LBJ consciously chose to carry out major escalations of the level of violence. While I and many other naive Americans were campaigning for him because he sounded more peaceful than Goldwater, Johnson was planning the Tonkin Gulf incident, a fraud designed to trick us into supporting a massive U.S. role in Vietnam. (This is documented in the Pentagon Papers.) Hitler staged a fake Polish attack on German troops to justify starting World War II. LBJ taught many of us a lesson, which his successor...
...little complaint when Harry Truman committed U.S. forces to Korea and Dwight Eisenhower ordered Marines to Lebanon. John Kennedy kept Congress ignorant of his plans to invade Cuba, and Lyndon Johnson merely informed Congress that he was sending troops in huge numbers into Viet Nam. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving Johnson a free hand and later repealed under President Nixon-but without any practical effect in either case-only illustrated the congressional impotence in matters of war. For practical purposes, Presidents have moved away from the treaty-making processes, using Executive agreements and grants-in-aid, thus undercutting...
...American advisers died there, Viet Nam had the time to touch some of the deepest national nerves. It had to be so. A young man now old enough to vote cannot remember a time since he learned to read when it was not there?those malign black headlines of Tonkin and Tet and moratorium, of Khe Sanh and presidential abdication and Chicago. It was, in Critic Michael Aden's phrase, "the living-room war." The evening news on television imaged forth the village ignited with a Zippo lighter, the director of South Viet Nam's police matter-of-factly blowing...
...U.S.S. Destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy report being attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in Tonkin Gulf. (No damage done, and reports of attack may have been greatly exaggerated.) President Johnson orders a retaliatory raid against North Vietnamese gunboats and "supporting" facilities...