President Lyndon B. Johnson put the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in front of Congress on August fifth 1964 as a way to take any and all actions to prevent further armed action against the United States. This resolution was presented to Congress because armed Vietnamese forces attacked two United States destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin on August second and fourth. It also stated that the maintenance of international peace and security in Southeast Asia was extremely important to the United States interest in world peace. Both Houses of Congress passed the resolution with almost no opposition. By passing this resolution Congress gave President Lyndon B. Johnson constitutional authorization to take military action in Vietnam and this resolution also gave President Lyndon B. Johnson almost unlimited power to oppose communist aggression in Southeast Asia. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was the reason the the United States entered an almost eight year war and lost over 58,000 United States troops lives in Vietnam. Later on many congressmen saw the Gulf of Tonkin resolution as a way for the president to do as he pleased in Vietnam and it was repealed in 1970. And in 1995 Vo Nguyen Giap acknowledged the August second attack but denied that the Vietnamese had launched a second attack on August fourth.