Commentary
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In this commentary, Steve Cohen looks more closely at newspaper coverage of the original incident and at Johnson's reaction. While Johnson was initially restrained in his response, the situation quickly changed. By August 10, both houses of Congress had voted to give the president free reign to "repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression."
Consider the sequence of events that led to this approval of escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. How would the situation have appeared in 1964? What would you want to know now?
