“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose*.”

Just in time for the Lyndon Johnson Centenary, a new version of proof that the launch of his great crusade to bring the Great Society to Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War’s causa bella, the basis of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, never happened.

“Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964″ is the National Security Agency’s once classified review of the non-events. An earlier version was released in 2005, following reports declassification had been delayed lest haunting parallels be found to Iraq intelligence troubles.

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