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Born November 13, 1913 • Prey Veng • Cambodia • (Born on this day)
Died November 17, 1985 (aged 72) • Fullerton • California • (Anniversary in 4 days)
Title / Office president (1972-1975), Cambodia • prime minister (1966-1967), Cambodia
Role In Vietnam War
Portrait of Norodom Sihanouk, former king of Cambodia, shown from the shoulders up in a suit and tie against a plain blue background.
Norodom Sihanouk
king of Cambodia
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Melvin Laird
American public official
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James Stockdale
United States admiral
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
president of United States
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
president of United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
president of United States
Ho Chi Minh, president of North Vietnam, with a long white beard and mustache, wearing a dark jacket, seated and looking to the side in a 1957 black-and-white portrait.
Ho Chi Minh
president of North Vietnam
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
American political scientist and diplomat
Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford
president of the United States
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Harold K. Johnson
United States Army officer
William Westmoreland; Lyndon B. Johnson
William Westmoreland
American military officer
John Kerry
John Kerry
United States senator and secretary of state
Tim O'Brien
Tim O’Brien
American author
Abrams, Creighton Williams, Jr.
Creighton Williams Abrams, Jr.
American army officer
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William Yarborough
United States Army officer
Robert S. McNamara
Robert S. McNamara
American businessman and government official
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Seymour Hersh
American journalist
Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap in full military uniform with medals and a peaked cap, photographed in 1968.
Vo Nguyen Giap
Vietnamese general
Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam from 1955 to 1963, wearing a dark double-breasted suit and tie, facing the camera with a neutral expression.
Ngo Dinh Diem
Vietnamese political leader
Mike Mullen.
Mike Mullen
American military officer

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