Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Whatever we are doing in faraway places--many with strange-sounding names--we are doing it not for power, not for territory, not for dominio...

We have no desire whatever to expand that conflict.

This is the firm and the irrevocable commitment of our people and our Nation, whatever the risk and whatever the cost.

South Viet-Nam has been attacked by North Viet-Nam. It has asked our help.