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Excerpt from "President Johnson's Address to Congress on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident" (1964) by President Lyndon B. Johnson

This excerpt is from President Johnson's address to Congress requesting the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964.

Last night I announced to the American people that the North Vietnamese regime had conducted further deliberate attacks against U.S. naval vessels operating in international waters, and I had therefore directed air action against gunboats and supporting facilities used in these hostile operations....
I further announced a decision to ask the Congress for a resolution expressing the unity and determination of the United States in supporting freedom and in protecting peace in southeast Asia.
These latest actions of the North Vietnamese regime have given a new and grave turn to the already serious situation in southeast Asia. Our commitments in that area are well known to the Congress. They were first made in 1954 by President Eisenhower. They were further defined in the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty approved by the Senate in February 1955.
This treaty with its accompanying protocol¹ obligates the United States and other members ... to meet Communist aggression against any of the parties or protocol states....
The issue is the future of southeast Asia as a whole. A threat to any nation in that region is a threat to all, and a threat to us.
Our purpose is peace. We have no military, political, or territorial ambitions in the area.
This is not just a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity. Our military and economic assistance to South Vietnam and Laos in particular has the purpose of helping these countries to repel aggression and strengthen their independence....
The North Vietnamese regime has constantly sought to take over South Vietnam and Laos. This Communist regime has violated the Geneva accords for Vietnam. It has systematically conducted a campaign of subversion, which includes the direction, training, and supply of personnel and arms for the conduct of guerrilla warfare in South Vietnamese territory...

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Excerpt from the People's (Populist) Party Platform (1892)

This excerpt is from the Populist Party Platform, often called the Omaha Platform. The party was established and issued its platform in 1892.

We declare ...
First.—That the union of the labor forces of the United States ... shall be permanent and perpetual ...
Second.—Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and every dollar taken from industry without an equivalent is robbery. "If any will not work, neither shall he eat." The interests of rural and civic¹ labor are the same; their enemies are identical... .
FINANCE.—We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by the general government only, a full legal tender² for all debts, public and private....
We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all State and national revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered....
TRANSPORTATION.—Transportation being a means of exchange and a public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. The telegraph, telephone, like the post-office system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people.
LAND.—The land, including all the natural sources of wealth, is the heritage of the people ... All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs ... should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only.
EXPRESSION OF SENTIMENTS
RESOLVED, That we cordially sympathize with the efforts of organized workingmen to shorten the hours of labor, and demand a rigid enforcement of the existing eight-hour law on Government work....
RESOLVED, That we commend to the favorable consideration of the people and the reform press the legislative system known as the initiative and referendum....

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