Leadership_And_Power

Leadership And Power When an alleged incident involving a North Vietnamese attack on the USS Maddux, an American ship patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin, transpired on August 2nd of 1964, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 37th President of the United States, issued a statement to Congress in regard to the escalating conflict in Vietnam. The intent of Johnson’s subsequent speech three days later was to implore Congress to pass a bill through legislation giving him the legal authority to further advance America’s involvement in Vietnam. Five days later, on August 7, 1964, Congress granted Johnson’s request and passed the “Gulf of Tonkin Resolution”: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression. The United States regards as vital to its national interest and to world peace the maintenance of international peace and security in Southeast Asia…to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia congress, johnson, power, president, states, united, speech, tonkin, gulf, southeast, vietnam, asia, political, policy, american, threat, resolution, johnson’s, further, been, area, aggression, treaty, take, situation, repel, protocol, peace, pass, necessary, military, lyndon, knowledge, freedom, forces