On August 2, 1964, the USS Maddox was patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin on an intelligence-gathering mission when it encountered ...

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Congress quickly passed the so-called ‘Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,’ which empowered President Lyndon Johnson to take all measures he deemed necessary to repel aggression.

The dust is not about to settle over the intelligence failure in Iraq. But it has already blurred our vision about weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

Dust down the Gulf of Tonkin scenario. The phantom attack on the USS Maddox in 1964 led to greater US military involvement in Vietnam. A Great playbook from 1964.

I was a young Senate legislative aide in 1964, at the time of the Gulf of Tonkin crisis. Just as the Bush administration is now looking for a "reason" to go to war, in 1964 it was clear that the ...

It said: "On Aug. 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox -- with Jackson aboard as executive officer and navigator -- was sailing in the Gulf of Tonkin, at least 30 miles off the coast of Vietnam, on ...