President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

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As a result of the revelation of the Fielding break-in during the trial John Ehrlichman H R Haldeman Richard Kleindienst and John Dean were forced out of office on April 30 and all would later be convicted of crimes related to the Watergate scandal. In 1967 he contributed to a top-secret study of classified documents regarding the conduct of the Vietnam War that had been commissioned by Defense Secretary McNamara.

S. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War to The New York Times and other newspapers.