And that he would ask Congress to pass a resolution making it clear that “our government is united in its determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom and in defense of peace in Southeast Asia.” During that speech LBJ took the occasion to expand on the sober, six-minute, nationally televised address he had made at 11:35 Eastern time the night before in which he told the American people that there had been an attack against United States ships “on the high seas” in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam on August 2 and 4.Ĭalling the North Vietnamese torpedo boat attacks an “outrage,” Johnson went on to announce that he’d ordered retaliatory bombing strikes against North Vietnam. Johnson on August 5, 1964, at Syracuse University. The attacks have been answered.” Thus spoke President Lyndon B. BY MARC LEEPSON Lyndon Johnson told the nation,
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