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By June, the House had passed a resolution calling for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region and demanded that the Obama administration explain why it didn’t ask Congress for permission first.

By June, the House had passed a resolution calling for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region and demanded that the Obama administration explain why it didn’t ask Congress for permission first.

Passed in 1964, that resolution authorized President Lyndon Johnson to take military action in Southeast Asia. President George H.W. Bush got an AUMF for the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

In part at least, last week’s National Commitments resolution is the doves’ belated atonement for the Tonkin measure, which received scarcely a critical glance when it passed Congress in 1964.