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...possibly because to do so might have provoked Peking and Moscow to respond in kind against South Viet Nam. Instead, after what was widely publicized as an attack on two U.S. destroyers by a group of North Vietnamese torpedo boats in 1964, he sought and got from Congress the Tonkin Gulf resolution, which gave him carte blanche to use U.S. forces however he chose in Viet Nam. The Senate voted two weeks ago to repeal the Tonkin Gulf resolution, but the Nixon Administration had never relied on it anyway. By depending so heavily on his role as Commander in Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The President as Commander in Chief | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

...colleagues doubts that he is. Seeking to seize the initiative on the peace issue, the Kansas conservative pulled off a legislative coup that left the Democrats dumbfounded. Aware that Senators J. William Fulbright and Charles Mathias were planning to propose the repeal of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, he stole the issue out from under the doves by offering it himself. Fulbright was outraged by the theft and voted against the repeal because the manner in which it was offered was "meaningless." To Dole's satisfaction and amusement, the repeal passed easily, 81 to 10. "Everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate: Nixon's Champion | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...your discussion of presidential war powers [June 1], you neglected to quote the most relevant part of the so-called Tonkin Gulf Resolution: ". . . The United States is, therefore, prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 22, 1970 | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...attacks" unconstitutional may be difficult. Nixon's authority as Commander in Chief gives him full power to protect U.S. troops in the field. But could he exercise that authority if the troops fighting in Southeast Asia were not deployed legally in the first place? The 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave congressional support to President Johnson's use of "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States." The dissenters argue, of course, that Congressmen who voted for the resolution after a reported enemy attack on two U.S. destroyers never intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The President's War Powers | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

When he needs it most, a President often finds himself least equipped with information. A former member of the Kennedy Administration contends that in the year before the Tonkin Gulf incident, the Administration found itself helpless when it needed to weigh the Buddhist uprisings that preceded the fall of Ngo Dinh Diem. In the pressure of crisis, the Government could find no experts who were capable of appraising why such an apparently trivial series of events came to have such overwhelming importance. While U.S. sophistication about Southeast Asia has inevitably grown since then, intelligence is still based on an uneven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DOES THE PRESIDENT REALLY KNOW MORE? | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

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