The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution granted

a. President Nixon authority to initiate a policy of detente.
b. President Johnson authority to pursue the war in Vietnam.
c. President Kennedy authority to invade Cuba.
d. President George Bush authority to invade Iraq in 1991.
e. President Carter to invade Iran in the 1970s.


b

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