Talk:Lyndon Baines Johnson
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[edit] "Police Action"
The term was actually Truman's way of describing the Korean war...PFoster 19:44, 16 October 2008 (EDT)
- Oh shoot. Wasn't VN one as well, though? Sure, we call it a "war" but it wasn't legally one. ħuman
19:50, 16 October 2008 (EDT)
- Ask Researcher, he's good at this stuff (my field is African history, not US foreign policy)--but I think that the Gulf of Tonkin resolution made it a real war...PFoster 19:52, 16 October 2008 (EDT)
- Not real war - was never "declared" formally by Congress. However, yeah, Tonkin handed over the same kind of dumb blank check that Congress gave GWB back in 2002... Anyway, do ya think the phrase at least works in context?
- Ask Researcher, he's good at this stuff (my field is African history, not US foreign policy)--but I think that the Gulf of Tonkin resolution made it a real war...PFoster 19:52, 16 October 2008 (EDT)