...attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression .... [Sec. 2]. .. the United States is, therefore, prepared, as the...Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom. This resolution was passed in August 1964, nineteen years after the United States became actively involved...

...from Congress on August 7, 1964, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. This resolution permitted the president to "take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force," to assist South Vietnam. For some months Johnson hesitated to commit the United States to further direct combat...

...Constitution of the United States and the Charter of the United Nations and in accordance with its obligations under the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty,...Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom. Nevertheless, Johnson's short-term dilemma was solved. In November he was elected to the Presidency...

...against US forces and "to prevent further aggression." In addition, the resolution said the US "is . . . prepared, as the president determines, to take all...Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom."33 McNamara, Rusk, and General Wheeler testified before a joint meeting of the Senate Foreign...

...describe American interests in Vietnam as "vital," and pledged that the United States was prepared "to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force," to defend the "freedom" of its allies in Southeast Asia.100 Rusk coordinated the text with congressional...

...and whereas these attacks are part of a deliberate and systematic attack against its neighbors . . . the United States is, therefore, prepared, as the...Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom. Statement by Secretary of State Dean Rusk: ". . . we cannot tell what steps may in the future be required...

...Constitution of the United States and the Charter of the United Nations and in accordance with its obligations under the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty,...including the use of armed force, to assist any member of protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense...

...attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression." The United States was "prepared, as the President determines, to take all...necessary steps, including the use of armed force. . . . "105 Four years later, after heavy American casualties in a war that seemed to have no end and...

...Congress for a joint resolution of support for his action in Vietnam, pronouncing the United States "prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps, including the use of force," to assist any SEATO member "requiring assistance in defense of its freedom." This morning,...

...attacks are part of a deliberate and systematic campaign of aggression . . . against its neighbors, ... the United States is, therefore, prepared, as the...Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom. Discussing the proposed language, Dean stressed it granted authority similar to that approved by Congress...