- Wilson Center Digital Archive
... Funeral briefing March 1965, invite to July 1965 RCP Congress – Ambassador Hoang Tu: A series of military plans drawn up by the U.S. General Staff have suffered failure in South Vietnam. For example, the plan for the pacification of Vietnam in 18 months as failed. American imperialism and its servan ...
... Funeral briefing March 1965, invite to July 1965 RCP Congress – Ambassador Hoang Tu: A series of military plans drawn up by the U.S. General Staff have suffered failure in South Vietnam. For example, the plan for the pacification of Vietnam in 18 months as failed. American imperialism and its servan ...
File
... August 1964– North Vietnamese torpedo boats are reported to have attacked U.S. ships. President Johnson saw actions as act of war. Congress passed Tonkin Gulf Resolution, giving president authority “to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States.” ...
... August 1964– North Vietnamese torpedo boats are reported to have attacked U.S. ships. President Johnson saw actions as act of war. Congress passed Tonkin Gulf Resolution, giving president authority “to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States.” ...
Kennedy and the Space Program - Waverly
... Tonkin Gulf Resolution To increase the American military effort in Vietnam, Johnson needed to obtain authority from Congress. ...
... Tonkin Gulf Resolution To increase the American military effort in Vietnam, Johnson needed to obtain authority from Congress. ...
Chapter 22 Section 1
... Shortly before his death, Kennedy had announced his intent to withdraw U.S. forces from South Vietnam. Whether Kennedy would have withdrawn from Vietnam remains a matter of debate. However, Lyndon Johnson escalated the nation’s role in Vietnam and eventually began what would become America’s longest ...
... Shortly before his death, Kennedy had announced his intent to withdraw U.S. forces from South Vietnam. Whether Kennedy would have withdrawn from Vietnam remains a matter of debate. However, Lyndon Johnson escalated the nation’s role in Vietnam and eventually began what would become America’s longest ...
Chapter 29 Notes
... -Concerned that Vietminh victory would lead to spread of Communism in Asia. -Feared domino theory – that is one country became communist, nearby countries would follow -In July 1954, French and Vietnamese leaders agreed to Geneva Accords. -Temporary division of Vietnam into North Vietnam and South V ...
... -Concerned that Vietminh victory would lead to spread of Communism in Asia. -Feared domino theory – that is one country became communist, nearby countries would follow -In July 1954, French and Vietnamese leaders agreed to Geneva Accords. -Temporary division of Vietnam into North Vietnam and South V ...
PDF sample
... In the summer of 1964, Daniel Ellsberg was thirty-three, lean and fit, with blue eyes and brown hair cut short. As an analyst for the Rand Corporation, a think tank focused on military and international issues, he had been granted permission to conduct research at the Pentagon, home of the United St ...
... In the summer of 1964, Daniel Ellsberg was thirty-three, lean and fit, with blue eyes and brown hair cut short. As an analyst for the Rand Corporation, a think tank focused on military and international issues, he had been granted permission to conduct research at the Pentagon, home of the United St ...
Blueprint
... President Johnson: and he's saying you've got to study it further, and say to Mansfield, "Now the President wants us, you, to get the proper people." And we come in and you say, "They fired at us. We responded immediately. And we took out one of their boats and put the other two running. And we kept ...
... President Johnson: and he's saying you've got to study it further, and say to Mansfield, "Now the President wants us, you, to get the proper people." And we come in and you say, "They fired at us. We responded immediately. And we took out one of their boats and put the other two running. And we kept ...
Assignment 2 Reading
... Historical Context Part 1: On August 2, 1964, the U.S.S. Maddox was collecting evidence while patrolling in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the eastern border of North Vietnam. Also in the Gulf were South Vietnamese gunboats, which had just launched a clandestine raid on the North Vi ...
... Historical Context Part 1: On August 2, 1964, the U.S.S. Maddox was collecting evidence while patrolling in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the eastern border of North Vietnam. Also in the Gulf were South Vietnamese gunboats, which had just launched a clandestine raid on the North Vi ...
Wayne Morse on Face the Nation (1964)
... Wayne Morse: "Couldn't be more wrong. You couldn't make a more unsound legal statement than the one you have just made. This is the promulgation of an old fallacy that foreign policy belongs to the president of the United States. That's nonsense." ...
... Wayne Morse: "Couldn't be more wrong. You couldn't make a more unsound legal statement than the one you have just made. This is the promulgation of an old fallacy that foreign policy belongs to the president of the United States. That's nonsense." ...
Johnson and Vietnam
... the Soviet Union and China. This is why Johnson refused to incite a full scale invasion of the North Vietnamese-didn’t want to incite war with these two countries By placing limits on the war, Johnson made it difficult to win. Between 1965-1967 over 220,000 Vietnamese died and by the end of 19 ...
... the Soviet Union and China. This is why Johnson refused to incite a full scale invasion of the North Vietnamese-didn’t want to incite war with these two countries By placing limits on the war, Johnson made it difficult to win. Between 1965-1967 over 220,000 Vietnamese died and by the end of 19 ...
Mil Hist – VN Gulf of Tonkin Incident
... originally claimed by the U.S. National Security Agency to have occurred on 4 AUG, as another sea battle, but instead may have involved "Tonkin Ghosts" (false radar images) and not actual NVN torpedo boat attacks. The outcome of these two incidents was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin R ...
... originally claimed by the U.S. National Security Agency to have occurred on 4 AUG, as another sea battle, but instead may have involved "Tonkin Ghosts" (false radar images) and not actual NVN torpedo boat attacks. The outcome of these two incidents was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin R ...
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
... originally claimed by the U.S. National Security Agency to have occurred on 4 AUG, as another sea battle, but instead may have involved "Tonkin Ghosts" (false radar images) and not actual NVN torpedo boat attacks. The outcome of these two incidents was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin R ...
... originally claimed by the U.S. National Security Agency to have occurred on 4 AUG, as another sea battle, but instead may have involved "Tonkin Ghosts" (false radar images) and not actual NVN torpedo boat attacks. The outcome of these two incidents was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin R ...
Gulf of Tonkin incident
The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ), also known as the USS Maddox incident, is the name given to what were originally claimed to be two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but eventually became very controversial with widespread claims that either one or both incidents were false, and possibly purposefully so. On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, reported being attacked by three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron. Maddox expended over 280 3-inch and 5-inch shells in what was claimed to be a sea battle. One US aircraft was damaged, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats were allegedly damaged, and four North Vietnamese sailors were said to have been killed, with six more wounded. There were no U.S. casualties.It was originally claimed by the National Security Agency that a Second Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred on August 4, 1964, as another sea battle, but instead evidence was found of ""Tonkin ghosts"" (false radar images) and not actual North Vietnamese torpedo boats. In the 2003 documentary The Fog of War, the former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara admitted that the August 2 USS Maddox attack happened with no Defense Department response, but the August 4 Gulf of Tonkin attack never happened.The outcome of these two incidents was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by ""communist aggression"". The resolution served as Johnson's legal justification for deploying US conventional forces and the commencement of open warfare against North Vietnam.In 1995, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara met with former Vietnam People's Army General Võ Nguyên Giáp to ask what happened on 4 August 1964 in the second Gulf of Tonkin Incident. ""Absolutely nothing"", Giáp replied. Giáp claimed that the attack had been imaginary.In 2005, an internal National Security Agency historical study was declassified; it concluded that Maddox had engaged the North Vietnamese Navy on August 2, but that there were no North Vietnamese naval vessels present during the incident of August 4. The report stated regarding the first incident on August 2 that ""at 1500G, Captain Herrick ordered Ogier's gun crews to open fire if the boats approached within ten thousand yards. At about 1505G, the Maddox fired three rounds to warn off the communist boats. This initial action was never reported by the Johnson administration, which insisted that the Vietnamese boats fired first.""