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.
“I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.”
“No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.”