“Our government is united in its determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom and in defense of peace in Southeast Asia.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Report on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8-ffiYyzA (4 August 1964)
1960s

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