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Argumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
[Argumentation in Context 17] 2019
► pp. 103–116

Chapter 6
Strategic ambiguity as an argumentative resource

The case of Lyndon Johnson, 50 years later

Article outline
  • Introduction
  • The case study
  • The ambiguities
    • The bombing halt
    • The troop announcement
    • Greater reliance on South Vietnam
    • The gold crisis and the plea for the surtax
    • The withdrawal statement
  • Conclusions and implications
  • References
Published online: 23 September 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.17.06zar
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