Reagan's 'noble cause' speech
1980 · Event
Addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Reagan calls Vietnam 'in truth, a noble cause'.
On these timelines: The Vietnam War, USA, Master
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- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem (1963)
- Operation Frequent Wind (1975)
- North Vietnam's final offensive (1975)
- The Ho Chi Minh trail (1959)
- US ground war begins at Da Nang (1965)
- Saigon Execution photograph (1968)
- Cronkite calls the war a stalemate (1968)
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