...Congress the next day. His resolution, which became known as the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, was simple: "That the Congress approves and supports the determination...United States and to prevent further aggression." A second section said the peace and security of Southeast Asia were vital to the US national interest.7...

...intent in August 1964, there remains the inescapably broad language of the resolution itself: . . . the Congress approves and supports the determination...the United States and to prevent further aggression. . . . Consonant with the Constitution of the United States and the Charter of the United Nations and...

...Johnson's request for support, Congress on August 7 passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which stated that "The Congress approves and supports the determination...forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression."3' Johnson was to use this authorization of military action in Vietnam as a blank check...

...small. South Korea, Thailand, and Australia sent troops, and the Philippines sent noncombat personnel. "Congress approves and supports the determination...United States and to prevent further aggression." Johnson was elected to his first full term as president on November 3, 1964. During his presidential...

...August 7 without a single dissenting vote, 416 to 0. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution approved and supported the determination of the President, as commander in...United States and to prevent further aggression." Neither house bothered to independently verify what happened in the Gulf of Tonkin. In the midst of...

...undeclared war in Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, approved on August 7. gave Johnson the authority to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed...United States and to prevent further aggression." "Operation Rolling Thunder" began in March 1965, with US bombing raids directed at North Vietnamese....

...of Tonkin off Vietnam in August 1964 led Congress to pass a resolution permitting President Johnson '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 us option because Johnson wanted...

...Vietnamese attacks on US Navy ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, the resolution authorized the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed...the United States and to prevent further aggression" and to use the armed forces "to assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Collective Defense...

...the Southeast Asia Resolution, aka, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Johnson the authority "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed...United States and to prevent further aggression." As a harbinger of the hawkish Conservative rhetoric which would soon rule absolutely, Senator Barry...

...become known as the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. 48 The language of the resolution was straightforward: "That the Congress approves and supports the determination...United States and to prevent further aggression." It noted that the United States was "prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps,...