The Gulf of Tonkin resolution was repealed in 1970 in an attempt to curtail President Nixon's power to continue the war.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was considered the beginning of the US formal involvement in the Vietnam War. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
This resolution gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia, but without a formal declaration of war by Congress.
There had been an investigation that Maddox had been on an intelligence mission in Tonkin Gulf, he denied of U.S. Navy support in such missions. Later he was approached by three Vietnam People's Navy torpedo boats. The Maddox then fired warning shots and the North Vietnamese boats attacked with torpedoes and machine gun fire.
The U.S. Congress in response to the alleged attack by North Vietnamese patrol boats, gave the power to Lyndon B. Johnson to take any action which is necessary in dealing with threats against U.S. forces. This is the reason it was later repealed.
Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States. He reduce the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and also ended American involvement in Vietnam combat in 1973. President Nixon believed War Powers Resolution to be illegal, and considered it to be “unconstitutional and dangerous.”
Hence, the Gulf of Tonkin resolution was repealed in 1970 in an attempt to attempt to limit presidential war powers.
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