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The resolution allowed President Johnson to commit more troops to South Vietnam without the approval of Congress.
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
By the end of Lyndon Johnson's administration, the Vietnam War was stalemated and unresolved. Half a million American soldiers were stationed in Vietnam but they were unable to prevent North Vietnamese infiltration of South Vietnam while the North Vietnamese army was unable to inflict any serious defeat on the American Army.
He hoped to be able to negotiate a peace treaty between the north and the south, but alas, it was not to be.
President Johnson's policy was to do what was necessary to defend South Vietnam against being conquered by North Vietnam. This involved a continually increasing number of US troops, which was described as escalation. Or as Tom Paxton put it, Lyndon Johnson told the nation Have no fear of escalation I am trying everyone to please Though it isn't really war We're sending fifty thousand more To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese.
As an immediate consequence of the withdrawl of federal troops from the South in 1877
Johnson came of age in a time of socially accepted lynching and legal segregation in the rural South
he sent the troops down to desegregate the schools in the south
Carter is the only one from the deep South, The Bushes and Lyndon Johnson were from Texas. Clinton is from Arkansas.
Lyndon Baines Johnson