...Lusitania, and the Greer episodes for earlier presidents. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution proclaimed: That the Congress approves and supports the determination...the United States and to prevent further aggression. 1 There was only cursory debate on the resolution in Congress, but questions were raised as to whether...

...Lusitania, and the Greer episodes for earlier presidents. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution proclaimed: That the Congress approves and supports the determination...forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.1 There was only cursory debate on the resolution in Congress, but questions were raised...

...Vietnamese patrol boats in the Tonkin Gulf; by the 7 r of August the Senate had authorized President Johnson "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed...United States and to prevent further aggression." Suddenly, Vietnam didn't seem so terribly far away. It might even concern me. A fellow student, Larry...

...Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution on August 7, 1964. The resolution granted Johnson authority "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed...United States and to prevent further aggression." In effect, it gave the president a blank check to deploy whatever force he deemed necessary to defend...

...stated that Congress "approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander-in-Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed...the United States and to prevent further aggression . . . [and] to take all necessary steps, including the use of force, to protect any member or protocol...

...Ernest Gruening of Alaska voted against it. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized the President to take all necessary measures to repel any armed...the United States and to prevent further aggression. It also authorized the President to assist any member or state of the South East Alliance Treaty Organization...

...resolution, which carelessly transferred legislative power to the president by authorizing Lyndon Johnson to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed...United States and to prevent further aggression." Neither house bothered to conduct independent investigations to verify Johnsons report of the two attacks....

...Vietnam, and Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution supporting the president's determination "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed...United States and to prevent further aggression." 32 Soon Johnson was invoking this resolution as if Congress had passed an explicit declaration of war,...

...settled much later. 43 . (A) The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, passed in 1 964, authorized the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed...United States and to prevent further aggression." The basis of Johnson's authority to conduct the war was unclear, as discovered by the Senate Foreign...

...violation of international law, have deliberately and repeatedly attacked United States naval vessels .... The United States regards as vital to its national...the maintenance of international peace and security in South East Asia. Consonant with the Constitution of the United States and the Charter of the United...