Summer 2014 Issue -- LBJ Gulf of Tonkin Speech de Newhouse Network - 2014

Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University, 2014. Magazine. Very Good. Magazine. Vol. 26, No. 1.. 28 pp. Gently read, nearly new. An issue of the quarterly alumni magazine of the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. This issue celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Newhouse School on the SU campus. The cover shows a historical photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson in an academic gown cutting a ribbon, dedicating the first building of Newhouse, now occupying three buildings. LBJ is shown with Lady Bird, NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller, wife Happy Rockefeller and SU Chancellor William P. Tolley. The dedication ceremony is remembered today for LBJ's Gulf of Tonkin speech, which asserted North Vietnam had attacked US Navy ships, including the destroyer USS Maddox. The magazine article noted LBJ received a standing ovation. It omitted any mention that years later, most historians regarded the speech as an exaggeration or fabrication of what actually occurred. The article also recounts the $15 million gift that publisher S.I. Newhouse provided to expand SU's journalism program. Size: 8vo -- 9 in By 9 in Square Format.