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Congress Repeals the Tonkin Gulf Resolution

January 12, 1971

Repeal of Tonkin Gulf Resolution&#59; Public Law 88-408, 88th Congress, August 7, 1964
Repeal of Tonkin Gulf Resolution&#59; Public Law 88-408, 88th Congress, August 7, 1964
Repeal of Tonkin Gulf Resolution; Public Law 88-408, 88th Congress, August 7, 1964

President Nixon signs an amendment to the Foreign Military Sales Act (Public Law 91-672) into law. The bill contains an attachment officially repealing the 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution. In ensuing years, Congress introduces multiple pieces of legislation meant to restrict the funding for and scope of U.S. military operations in Southeast Asia.1

Robert E. Dewhirst, Encyclopedia of the United States Congress (New York: FactsOnFile Inc., 2007). 508; Alan P. Dobson and Steve Marsh, U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1945 (2nd edition; New York: Routledge, 2006), 104. Spencer C. Tucker, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2nd edition; Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 437.