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Mar 14, 2019 · In the White House Situation Room, Walt Rostow shows President Lyndon B. Johnson options for a military attack on a site in Vietnam during the war in 1968.
- Jesse Greenspan
- 2 min
Passed nearly unanimously by Congress on 7 August and signed into law three days later, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution—or Southeast Asia Resolution, as it was officially known—was a pivotal moment in the war and gave the Johnson administration a broad mandate to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
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Jun 1, 2007 · Indeed, the central question that I see for historians considering LBJ and Vietnam is not why he escalated American involvement in the fighting in 1965 but why he failed to take the political precautions necessary to protect his administration from a stalemate or even failure in Vietnam.
- Robert Dallek
- 1996
LBJ Press Conference Announcing Escalation in U.S. Combat in Vietnam, 1965. LBJ's Private Apprehension Towards the Situation with in Vietnam with Some Commentary.
In August 1964, in response to an alleged attack by North Vietnamese patrol boats on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, the U.S. Congress authorized Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson to take any action necessary to deal with threats against U.S. forces and allies in Southeast Asia.
Nov 2, 2011 · On February sixth, nineteen sixty-five, however, the Viet Cong attacked American camps at Pleiku and Qui Nhon. The Johnson administration immediately ordered air strikes against military...
