A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress passed on August 7 - 1964 in direct response to a minor and bizarre naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization - without a formal declaration o

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1. A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress passed on August 7 - 1964 in direct response to a minor and bizarre naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization - without a formal declaration o