On the evening of August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson
addressed the nation in a televised speech in which he stated
that U.S. ships had been attacked twice in international waters
in the Gulf of Tonkin near North Vietnam. The following morning,
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was introduced in the Senate.
Although the version shown here is the original draft
resolution, the language was not amended and therefore reads the
same as the final version, which was passed by both house of
Congress and signed into law on August 7. S.J. Res. 189: the
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution as Introduced, 8/5/1964, Sen 88A-B2,
Records of the U.S. Senate (ARC 2127364)