Lyndon Johnson5 August 1964
Johnson used a speech at Syracuse University to review the Tonkin incidents, explain the retaliatory strikes, and state that the United States did not seek a wider war.
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Johnson used a speech at Syracuse University to review the Tonkin incidents, explain the retaliatory strikes, and state that the United States did not seek a wider war.
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