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Gulf of Tonkin Incident

The Gulf of Tonkin incident and its role in escalating the Vietnam War.

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Jan 11, 2026
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What president had the most wars during there term

The question of which U.S. president "had the most wars" depends on how one counts wars: formal declared wars, full‑scale wars, or the constellation of military interventions and operations undertaken...

Jan 26, 2026
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What are the most consequential lies told by U.S. presidents and their real-world impacts?

have reshaped wars, institutions and public trust: ’s misleading account of the helped escalate the War, ’s administration used faulty claims about ’s weapons to justify invasion, and ’s deceptions to...

Jan 12, 2026

Which presidents presided over the longest aggregate years of active U.S. military engagement?

The documents supplied do not contain a prepared, empirical ranking of "aggregate years of active U.S. military engagement" by presidency, so a definitive, source-backed list cannot be produced from t...

Jan 10, 2026

Which US presidents have been documented to tell the most false or misleading statements?

Donald Trump is documented by multiple fact‑checking projects to have made far more false or misleading public statements than any other modern president — The Washington Post recorded roughly 30,573 ...

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