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...American phase of the Viet Nam War-Jan. 1,1961-was chosen arbitrarily for bookkeeping purposes. It was ten years after U.S. financial aid began to flow to the South Vietnamese, more than two years after the first American advisers were killed, 3½ years before the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and four years before the Marines landed at Danang. So it seemed altogether fitting that the end of the American involvement in the Viet Nam War-March 30, 1973-should also fall on a rather random day: 35 days after the last American battlefield casualty, and before...
...personally implicated in any of them, he may face his own legal test if Congress acts upon the ruling of a Federal District Court in Washington. That ruling declared that the prosecution of the war in Vietnam lost its legal sanction upon repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. The ruling recommended studying the Nixon administration's conduct since then, and if Congress follows the recommendation, the President himself will face an investigation...
President Nixon has been conducting the Indochina War illegally since Jan. 12, 1971, when Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals said Tuesday...
...court declared that the Tonkin Gulf Resolution amounted to a declaration of war but "the resolution cannot serve as justification for the indefinite continuation of the war since it was repealed by subsequent congressional action...
Kissinger himself did not see much bomb damage. He and his team occupied a high-ceilinged yellow stucco house, once the residence of the French administrator of Tonkin, with a formal garden graced by peach and plum blossoms in bloom. Walking along the shores of Hoan Kiem Lake, Kissinger was the object of stares from passersby, but none approached him. He was impressed by the city's quiet, where the street traffic consists mainly of bicycles...