Since partisans have turned the April 30, 1975, Communist takeover of South Vietnam into a political weapon, I'm going to spend the anniversary doing a little myth-busting.
Mel Laird, Richard Nixon's defense secretary, started the modern myth that “Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975” in a 2005 article in Foreign Affairs, the journal of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations.
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