How does Defense Secretary Robert McNamara characterize the role of the U.S. in the Gulf of Tonkin incident on August 2, 1964? Does the evidence presented in the 1971 New York Times article “What They Said in Public and Private” contradict McNamara’s account?

1) How does Defense Secretary Robert McNamara characterize the role of the U.S. in the Gulf of Tonkin incident on August 2, 1964? Does the evidence presented in the 1971 New York Times article “What They Said in Public and Private” contradict McNamara’s account?2) According to the founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW), how prevalent was discrimination against women in 1966? What kinds of evidence do they cite, and how do they propose to achieve gender equality?3) According to Mirta Vidal, what was the purpose of La Conferencia de Mujeres por la Raza (the National Chicana Women Conference), held in Houston, Texas on May 28-30, 1971? What does this document suggest about how women’s consciousness was changing in the late 1960s and early 1970s?