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People are waiting for the so called October Surprise. The most famous October Surprises were from Kennedy and Johnson. Kennedy disclosed Soviet Nuclear Missiles in Cuba on October, 1962. By facing down the Soviets he improved his poll numbers and helped the Democrats. What few people know is that the American government knew about these missiles for several months before the election. On August 2, 1964 President Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin crisis to escalate the war in Vietnam and to appear to be strong against Communism. This was an effective counter to Barry Goldwater. What most Historians believe now is that the second day of the Gulf of Tonkin crisis was little more than firing shells are radar signatures and the USA Navy was not threatened on the second day. I wonder who BO is going to go to war with in order to help his party? ISIS, Syria? Clinton went into Serbia when his poll numbers went down.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 20:33:32 +0000

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