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Originally posted by Spanky
As far as I know one ever went after Johnson for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. In fact I have never heard any one argue that he broke any laws when he asked for that legislation. He lied and deceived Congress, but no one ever talked about prosecution.
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No one ever talks about prosecution, because he wasn't prosecuted and he was dead before Watergate. The fact is, that legal and history scholars agree almost unanimously that Johnson, Kennedy, and Nixon all committed crimes in their efforts to further prosecution of the Vietnam War.
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