Gulf Of Tonkin Incident Quotes

It was eventually revealed that the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was written before the alleged incident – i.e., the document was simply awaiting an excuse to activate it.

in the summer of 1964, coincided with the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which became the basis for a congressional resolution that gave Lyndon Johnson almost unlimited authority to pursue the Vietnam War. Ellsberg establishes that the incident was not the military attack on an American ship that Congress thought it was, and that the administration was cooking up evidence to justify a course of action it had already decided upon.