Thanks for Prayers Following Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Typed Letter, signed (“Lyndon B. Johnson”), to W. Parkman Rankin.
Washington, DC: The White House, August 19, 1964.
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1 p. typed on White House stationery. 1 vols. 8vo. Thanks for Prayers Following Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Fine with envelope, in quarter brown morocco slipcase.
Item #247142
LBJ writes as President to W. Parkman Rankin, Executive Vice President of THIS WEEK magazine, “You are certainly thoughtful to write me following dedication ceremonies of the Samuel I. Newhouse Communications Center at Syracuse University … Thank you, too, for your prayerful blessing in performance of the tasks which lie ahead …”
The later half of the letter refers to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which had been passed by a joint resolution of Congress on August 7, 1964 and gave the President authority to use conventional military force in Vietnam without Congressional approval.
