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In early August 1964, two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces.
—“U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War,” Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
How did President Lyndon B. Johnson respond to this event?

by ordering a bombing raid on Saigon

by asking the Soviet government for assistance

by requesting a meeting with the North Vietnamese leader

by requesting the expansion of military involvement in Vietnam