The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution .
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution expanded the powers of the President by giving him the authority to take military action in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war from Congress. This resolution effectively allowed the President to escalate US involvement in the Vietnam War without needing explicit permission from Congress. It is considered a significant expansion of executive power and has been used as a precedent for future military actions without congressional approval.
The Guld of Tonkein Resolution was a direct response to a minor naval incident against the US. It gave President Johnson more mlitary powers.
The Vietnam War
It says that the president should inform Congress of his intention to send troops abroad within 48 hours.
President Lyndon B. Johnson obtained congressional approval for the war in Vietnam through the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. This resolution was passed in 1964 and gave the president broad powers to use military force in Southeast Asia without a formal declaration of war. It was based on the belief that U.S. naval vessels had been attacked by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin, although subsequent evidence suggested that the initial incident may have been exaggerated or fabricated.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution expanded the powers of the President by giving him the authority to take military action in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war from Congress. This resolution effectively allowed the President to escalate US involvement in the Vietnam War without needing explicit permission from Congress. It is considered a significant expansion of executive power and has been used as a precedent for future military actions without congressional approval.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964 gave U.S. President Johnson any military force necessary to protect U.S. interests. The "War Powers Resolution" in 1973, which over-rode President Nixon's veto, restricted the President's power, without "Congressional Approval." The WPR was brought about by President Nixon's ground campaigns in Cambodia & Laos in 1970 and 1971, respectively.
The Guld of Tonkein Resolution was a direct response to a minor naval incident against the US. It gave President Johnson more mlitary powers.
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The Under Secretary of State, Nicholas Katzenbach was a distinguished lawyer, who had been Attorney General. Before joining the Johnson administrantion he had been a professor of law at Yale University. In his view, the Tonkin Gulf resolution was for all practical purposes a declaration of war, giving Johnson the powers of any president who operated as if the US Congress had declared a war on another nation.
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The War Powers Resolution was the act that was intended to curb presidential military muscle. Nixon vetoed the act, however, the veto was overridden by the U. S. Senate.
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The Vietnam War
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The President has broad constitutional power to take military action in response to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Congress has acknowledged this inherent executive power in both the War Powers Resolution and the Joint Resolution passed by Congress on September 14, 2001.