 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - United States - 1988 - 422 pages
...SOUTH VIETNAMESE ACTIONS [P. 14] Secretary MCNAMARA. I would like to cover three points. First, our Navy played absolutely no part in, was not associated...if there were any. I want to make that very clear to you. The Maddox was operating in international waters, was carrying out a routine patrol of the... | |
 | James P. Pfiffner - Political Science - 2003 - 230 pages
...were any connection between the Oplan 34A raids and the attack on the Maddox. McNamara stated: "Our Navy played absolutely no part in, was not associated...South Vietnamese actions, if there were any. ... I say this flatly. This is a fact."31 His statement was incorrect and misleading. The United States knew... | |
 | Paul Vincent Budra, Michael Zeitlin - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - 2004 - 246 pages
...implicated." In response, McNamara, with convincing deceit, unequivocally denied Morse's charges. "Our Navy played absolutely no part in, was not associated...any South Vietnamese actions, if there were any," he said. "I want to make that very clear to you. The Maddox was operating in international waters,... | |
 | Mark Dahl - Political Science - 2005 - 528 pages
...whites, hillbillies, and Midwest farm boys, all groveling after the sordid vice. CHAPTER 35 McNamara Our Navy played absolutely no part in, was not associated...South Vietnamese actions, if there were any.... I say this flatly. This is a fact. . . . On denying there was a link between the American Navy and South... | |
 | John S. Friedman - History - 2005 - 964 pages
...was a decoy ship. And that's exactly what she was. This is what the Secretary of Defense said: "Our navy played absolutely no part in, was not associated with, was not aware of any South Vietnam actions." Now let me point out how he concealed the facts. He didn't even tell us about the... | |
 | Donald E. Schmidt - History - 2005 - 770 pages
...there was any connection between the Saigon raids on North Vietnam and the destroyer's mission: "Our Navy played absolutely no part in, was not associated with, was not aware of, any South Vietnam actions, if there were any."4 Prompted by the North Vietnamese attacks on United States ships,... | |
 | Mark Hamilton Lytle - History - 2005 - 432 pages
...assured congressional leaders. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara similarly claimed, "our navy played no part in, was not associated with, was not aware of, any South Vietnamese actions, even if there were any." In the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the House voted unanimously and the Senate... | |
 | Gene Healy - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 386 pages
...war-making. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara assured Congress that the attack was "unprovoked": "Our Navy played absolutely no part in, was not associated...aware of, any South Vietnamese actions, if there were any."45 In fact, the destroyer USS Maddox had been in the Gulf of Tonkin as part of a coordinated effort... | |
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First, our Navy played absolutely no part in, was not associated with, was not aware of, any South Vietnamese actions, if there were any. 