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How the U S got involved in Vietnam LBJ asks Congress for broad war powers
A Dominion News synopsis explains the McNamara ordered study scope and the covert 1964 Johnson Administration war against North Vietnam to curb Viet Cong activity in the South. It traces the Gulf of Tonkin resolution origins and its congressional adoption.
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Dominion News
Robert McNamara
North Vietnam
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin
Congress
Washington
Johnson
White House
Maddox
Turner Joy
Pentagon
United States
Defense
McNamara
Admiral Sharp
Ticonderoga
Hong Kong
Sharp
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
Arkansas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rep
Thomas E. Morgan
Pennsylvania
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Doane
The
Times
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Morse
Tonkin Gulf
Ernest L. Gruening
Alaska
Frank Church
D.ida
Rusk
William Bundy
John T. McNaughton
U.S
Seaborn
Dong
D.R.V
Laos
Tonkin
Maxwell Taylor
Saigon
Defense Departments
Taylor
Bundy