The Raw Story: Robert McNamara deceived LBJ on Gulf of Tonkin, documents show

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By AP | July 9, 2009 - 8:24 pm - Posted in History

Exclusive from The Raw Story by Gareth Porter, 8 July 2009:

The secret was his deliberate deceit of President Lyndon B. Johnson on Aug. 4, 1964 regarding the alleged attack on US warships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Documents which have been available for decades in the LBJ Library show clearly that McNamara failed to inform Johnson that the U.S. naval task group commander in the Tonkin Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, had changed his mind about the alleged North Vietnamese torpedo attack on U.S. warships he had reported earlier that day… Read More

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