On the Fact that Even Though the Commanders of Both the U.S.S. Maddox and the U.S.S. C. Turner Joy Admitted the Very Next Day that There Was No Attempted Strike On the Maddox by the North Koreans and that it Was Nothing but an Erroneous Reading On the Maddox's Radar Screen, Mr. Johnson Continued to Plead Legitimacy On the Matter

So the man was either incompetent beyond comprehension or a dirty, stinking, and pathological liar (just another typical U.S. President, in other words). You be the judge.