...longer recognize it. in the Tonkin Gulf. It pledged support to the President, as Commander-in-Chief, to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed...United States, and to prevent further aggression." Here, according to Secretary Rusk and his supporters, is the crux of the matter. By firing at our destroyers...

...repel any armed attac^ against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression. . . . The United States regards as vital to its national...the maintenance of international peace and security of Southeast Asia, Consonant with the Constitution and the Charter of the United Nations, and in accordance...

...resolution as a device for securing congressional consent. The first clause of that resolution states that "the Congress approves and supports the determination...United States and to prevent further aggression." 169 The clause alone hardly represents more than a congressional rallying around the flag in response...

...language of the resolution is certainly broad enough to include the present hostilities. It is that "Congress approves and supports the determination...United States and to prevent further aggression." And I believe that a fair reading of the congressional debates in their entirety shows that although...

...language of the resolution is certainly broad enough to include the present hostilities. It is that "Congress approves and supports the determination...United States and to prevent further aggression." And I believe that a fair reading of the congressional debates in their entirety shows that although...

...language of the resolution is certainly broad enough to include the present hostilities. It is that "Congress approves and supports the determination...United States and to prevent further aggression." And I believe that a fair reading of the congressional debates in their entirety shows that although...

...unprovoked aggression. . . ." On August 7 Congress approved the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which reads: "Congress approves and supports the determination...the United States and to prevent further aggression. . . . The United States is ... prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps,...

...the US military in a broad fight against communist aggression in the region. Quotes from the Cold . Congress approves and supports the determination of...the United States and to prevent further aggression. ... [T]he United States is, therefore, prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary...

...the Gulf of Tonkin off Vietnam, in 1964, led Congress to pass a resolution permitting the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed...United States and to prevent further aggression", in short to wage war without proclaiming it. This was the preferred American option because President...

...the United States Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the president the power "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed...United States and to prevent further aggression." This tougher United States stance was matched in Moscow in October when Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksey...