
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which allows him to escalate U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War with nearly unchecked authority to use force in Southeast Asia after he claimed North Vietnam attacked U.S. destroyers.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which allows him to escalate U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War with nearly unchecked authority to use force in Southeast Asia after he claimed North Vietnam attacked U.S. destroyers.