The Tonkin Gulf Resolution (officially, the Southeast Asia Resolution, Public Law 88-408) was a joint resolution of the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in response ...
... National Security Archive at George Washington University; Ronnie E. Ford "New Light on Gulf of Tonkin" Original Document: Tonkin Gulf Resolution; Bibliography: Tonkin Gulf Incidents
Joint Resolution of Congress H.J. RES 1145 August 7, 1964. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,