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Episode 37: The Johnson Treatment (Part 5) The Gulf of Tonkin
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Even though we were already involved, this was the event that really started us down the long road to a full scale land war in Asia.
Strangely, to this day no one knows exactly for sure what happened in the middle of the night on the other side of the world. Most likely, nothing. But the supposed attack on the U.S.S. Maddox and U. S. S. C. Turner Joy led to a retaliatory strike against North Vietnam and then the Johnson Administration seeking a resolution from Congress that would unshackle it and allow it to wage war in Vietnam.
Not only are the events that happened in the…
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