Why the Senate Slept: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Beginning of the Vietnam War.(Review)

Canadian Journal of History | August 1, 2000| | Copyright

Why the Senate Slept: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Beginning of the Vietnam War, by Ezra Y. Siff. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 1999. xix, 172 pp. $49.95.

On August 2, 1964, there was a brief clash between a U.S. destroyer and three North Vietnamese torpedo boats, in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam. On August 4, President Lyndon Johnson announced that North Vietnamese vessels had made a second attack, this time against two destroyers. He used this report to get the Congress to pass, almost unanimously and with very little discussion, what ...

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