The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (officially, the Southeast Asia Resolution, Public Law 88-408) .
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
543,000 in 1969
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Richard Pearis became a loyalist when the Provincial Congress would not name him Native American Superintendent.
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President Lydon Johnson lied to the American People that USA Navy Destroyers had been attacked at the Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnamese Torpedo Boats. This lie led to the Tonkin Resolution, which led to the Vietnam War, 1965 to 1975. President LBJ said that the US Navy Sailors were probably just shooting at Flying Fish, when they claimed they were attacked by North Vietnamese enemy warships. LBJ lied so he could get permission from the Congress to attack North Vietnam.
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Acceptable, until after Nixon's Cambodian & Laos invasions ('70 & '71) then the financial support was cut.
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