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...present-day neighbors stem in no small part from these wars, which reduced Laos to a tiny mountain kingdom, robbed Cambodia of the rich Mekong Delta (Cochin China) and created, for the first time in history, a vigorous unity in Viet Nam between the South (Annam) and North (Tonkin...
...FEBRUARY 9 at the Harvard Law School Forum, Senator Charles McC. Mathias, a freshman Republican from Maryland, argued for the repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. His own measure (SJ 166) would accomplish this as well as repeal "the mortmain of past Congressional resolutions that have been interpreted as relinquishing broad authority to the executive to intervene militarily around the world." Mathias was voicing the growing eagerness of the Senate to restrict the sway of the President in foreign affairs...
Ironically, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution best illustrates the kind of consultation envisioned by SR 85-here the President asked for and received "affirmative action." Overlooking this, many Senators have exaggerated the import of SR 85. Mr. Mansfield called the resolution "one of all-Senate concern which goes to the nature of the constitutional responsibilities of this body." intimating that only a breakdown in the Constitution could allow Vietnam to occur. In fact, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution fulfilled all the constitutional niceties. By expressing the sense of Congress, it eliminated the need for a declaration...
...Senate wishes to assert itself, it can begin, as Senator Mathias has suggested, by repealing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and encouraging the President to seek a political solution to the war. At present the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizes an almost boundless extension of the war into the North. The bombing has temporarily ceased, but "as long as the resolution remains on the books, it may be interpreted as authorizing further attacks...
...resolution, co-sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Michael J. Mansfield (D-Mont.), would repeal four "Cold War" resolutions-including the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Mansfield and Mathias testified in favor of the proposal before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week...