Word: tonkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satisfy everyone. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman William Fulbright said that he wanted more information on just what had happened, and added: "I'll find out eventually-in two or three or four years. We're just now finding out what took place in the Gulf of Tonkin." Fulbright's rueful reference was to the exhaustive study his committee is making into the 1964 attacks...
...Rules. But what to do? The Navy reacted in classic style by ordering the 85,000-ton nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise to show the flag in the Sea of Japan. En route at the time to Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin after a stop in southern Japan, the carrier headed north instead, accompanied by the nuclear frigate Truxtun and several other escort vessels. Six or seven other warships put out of Yokosuka later in the week, presumably bound for the same area. Shadowing Enterprise, sometimes at the dangerously close range of 800 yards, was the Soviet trawler Gidrolog...
What chiefly disquieted Capitol Hill as the fighting dragged on was the fact that the U.S. has never formally declared war in Viet Nam, and that Johnson never sought congressional approval of the conflict beyond the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution...
...other hand, no one else in Congress-not even Arkansas' J. William Fulbright-has been so consistently and vociferously opposed as Wayne Morse, who calls U.S. policy "immoral and illegal." Morse is one of only two Senators-with Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening-who voted against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964, one of only three who voted last year against defense appropriations. Challenging anyone else with such a record, Duncan might expect at least covert help from the White House. As it happens, Wayne Morse and Lyndon Johnson are the closest of friends...
...millions of other people all over the world." Until limits are placed on the Chief Executive's powers, the committee warned, "the American people will be threatened with tyranny or disaster." At the very least, it said, Congress should pause and consider before it approves anything like the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964, which Johnson used as a mandate for the subsequent Viet Nam buildup. The resolution, sponsored at the time by Fulbright himself, expressed congressional "approval and support" of the President's determination "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces...