The 23 climbed like a fighter and I felt like we were heading for the Gulf of Tonkin.
On an October morning, in the Gulf of Tonkin, I prepared for my 23rd mission over North Vietnam.
Due to their size and the nearby bones, some archaeologists think the urns were prehistoric burial sites for an ancient civilisation that travelled along a forgotten overland trade route between the Mekong River and the Gulf of Tonkin.
For example, in 1964 he voted for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that essentially gave the Johnson administration carte blanche authority to wage war in Vietnam (only two senators and no House members voted against it).
The Vietnam war was long and tortuous, but even counting events only from the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964 to the withdrawal of American troops following the Paris peace accord in 1973 the conflict lasted some nine years.
Wallop simply wanted to know the sorts of things many in Congress wished they had asked at the time of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution: What would be the nature of the U.S. commitment how many troops, with what armaments, with what rules of engagement?
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shades of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Wallop simply wanted to know the sorts of things many in Congress wished they had asked at the time of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution: What would be the nature of the U.S. commitment -- how many troops, with what armaments, with what rules of engagement?
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shades of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Within a few years of its adoption on Aug. 7, 1964, however, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was one of the most widely regretted initiatives ever adopted by the legislative branch.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shades of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
As was the case at the time of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, the executive branch seems to be deliberately misleading the Congress about its true intentions.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shades of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
And, as was true at the time of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, it is seductive to believe that the public's present, acquiescent mood toward the contemplated use of U.S. military power will persist.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shades of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Only by do doing can the nation be spared the sort of trauma that ensued after the Tonkin Gulf Resolution a trauma that, if anything, may be of vastly greater strategic significance if it winds up not just killing American soldiers but promoting a false peace in the Middle East and contributing to new, possibly mortal perils for our most important ally there, Israel.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shades of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Only by do doing can the nation be spared the sort of trauma that ensued after the Tonkin Gulf Resolution -- a trauma that, if anything, may be of vastly greater strategic significance if it winds up not just killing American soldiers but promoting a false peace in the Middle East and contributing to new, possibly mortal perils for our most important ally there, Israel.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shades of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Rather than ask for a declaration of war, Johnson used an incident in the Tonkin Gulf to get a congressional resolution that he interpreted as being the equivalent of war.
As with the debate on the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, formal Senate consideration of the Wallop amendment was, to say the least, superficial.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shades of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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