Guam. Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of sixteen Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United Nations.
Constitution Daily. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the limits of presidential power. It was 50 years ago today that a joint session of Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, an act that led to the Vietnam Warâs escalation and the eventual passage of another act seeking to curb presidential powers. Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Whatever they hoped to achieve by rushing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution through to passage, as they did again with the war funding appropriation bill the following year, in the end, they could not credibly claim to have been taken advantage of concerning Johnsonâs prosecution of the war.