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Is a Trigger-Happy Trump Copying LBJ’s Gulf of Tonkin Lies?

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Lyndon Johnson deceived Congress and the American people about the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 to justify escalating US involvement in Vietnam. Is this Trump’s playbook too?

James A. Warren
James A. Warren
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James A. Warren

James A. Warren

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