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Now it can be shown that a pattern of bombing away any oppor-
tunity for peace has been the consistent policy of the Johnson
government ever since the great overtures. for peace in the summer
of 1964 when Johnson first ordered a bombing of the North. The
bombing of the North grew out of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Ostensibly this incident involved an attack by North Vietnamese
torpedo boats on the U.S. destroyers, Maddox and Turner Joy. The
question of whether such attacks occurred at all still rages:
*Washington, Feb. 21 (UPI) -Sen. J. William
Fullbright (D. Ark.) charged Wednesday - and
the Defense Department denied- - that Defense
Secretary Robert S. McNamara had suppressed
information strongly suggesting U.S. destroyers
were not attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
(The Philadelohia Inquirer, Feb. ,22, 1968.)
Here again weisee action where no action may have been called
for. To consider action where there should be none expected,
it is an interesting commentary upon the ability of our government
to be moved into action, when wel consider Oswald was wanted before
we can show he was legitimately identified, and the military
assured us of no conspiracy before the lone assassin was even
chárged with killing the President. We know now that the Gulf
of Tonkin Resolution was drafted by Bundy before the Gulf of
Tonkin incident.
The Unpolitical Johnson- A Military Idealist
Why did President Johnson not take advantage of opportunities
for peace talks on Vietnam? He would not have lost face. On the
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