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Hearings. These were the first hearings on the vietnam war. The 1966 the at phnom hearings. Coverage of the hearings and begin with donald richie, who explains the significance of the hearings. The vietnam hearings were probably some of the most extraordinary hearings ever held by congress. Hearing an investigation into a war that was still being fought. Wanteds and the senate to know why we were in vietnam and what the administrations policies were and wanted to hear from opponents of the war. They gave equal status to critics of the war as they did to supporters. Its a real debate and that is something which does not happen in wartime. Was we never had a declaration of war or congressional debate as to why the United States should fight a war in vietnam. In 1964, there had been a minor incident in the gulf of tonkin between some pt boats and a destroyer. President johnson use that to get congress to pass the gulf of tonkin resolution, authorizing him to retaliate. Oneshotseem to be a

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