The Tonkin Gulf is connected to the Pacific Ocean at the northwest arm of the South China Sea. The gulf is 500 kilometers long, 250 kilometers wide, and 70 meters deep at its deepest point. It borders northern Vietnam to the west, Hainan Island to the...

The Gulf of Tonkin, in Vietnamese: Vịnh Bắc Bộ or in Chinese: Beibu Wan is an arm of the South China Sea. Covering an area of 126,250 km², the gulf borders Vietnam on the northwest, west and southwest. The Chinese mainland lies to the north...

I was a young Senate legislative aide in 1964, at the time of the Gulf of Tonkin crisis. Just as the Bush administration is now looking for a "reason" to go to war, in 1964 it was clear that the Johnson administration was desperately...

THIS WAS NO sudden, scared-up, uninformed Tonkin Gulf vote that Congress took on Iraq yesterday. Nor was it a hasty decision made simply on three intense days of floor debate. For no less than five months Congress has been profoundly immersed in this issue....

On Aug. 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson had a busy day juggling his civil rights initiative, a growing crisis in the Gulf of Tonkin and the discovery of the bodies of three missing civil rights workers in Mississippi.He also got a call from the first...

Some other key war votes in Congress.IRAQ-TERRORISM_October 2002: Congress authorized President Bush to use the military to "defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq." The Senate vote was 77-23, the House vote was 296-133._Sept. 11, 2001 attacks:...