[PDF.71au] Why the Senate Slept: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Beginning of America's Vietnam War

Why the Senate Slept: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Beginning of America's Vietnam War

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 | #4946073 in Books |  1999-01-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.00 x6.75 x1.00l,1.14 | File type: PDF | 176 pages

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||9 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Revisiting the Tonkin Gulf Resolution|By Steven M. Leonard|Why the Senate Slept provides an interesting, if myopic, glimpse into the legislative processes that ultimately resulted in the passage of S.J. 189, the joint House and Senate resolution commonly referred to as the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. The author, a Baltimore attorney and former legislative assistant to Senator Gay| |"No understanding of what has become 'Vietnam' can be understood without this book, the only book I know that lays the cause of that war directly where it belongs--in the Senate and Congress of the United States of America, both of which 'slept' while (McGeorg

Siff provides the first accurate account of how the political processes in the U.S. Senate allowed the executive branch to launch a major war, with basically no accountability to Congress. He reveals the heretofore untold personal and public roles of key Senators as well as those of lesser stature whose actions and failures to act resulted in a bloody and costly conflict that divided a nation and scarred its politics and armed forces.

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