The Writer's Almanac - Monday, August 6, 2018 - a podcast by Prairie Home Productions

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It was on this day in 1964 during a speech in Congress that Senator Ernest Gruening of Alaska said, "All Vietnam is not worth the life of a single American boy." But the next day, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing expanded military action in Vietnam.