Vietnam
From 13 March to 2 October 1964, Samuel N. Moore was away from Long Beach on another deployment to the western Pacific. In August, during the crisis following the Gulf of Tonkin incident, Samuel N. Moore supplied ammunition to Maddox (DD-731), and transferred documents from Maddox and Turner Joy (DD-951) to Ticonderoga (CV-14).
Sailing from the West Coast for the western Pacific on 28 September 1965, she provided gunfire support off Vietnam, operated as a plane guard in the South China Sea, and fired on targets in the Mekong Delta, before returning to Long Beach on 8 April. Getting underway again for the western Pacific on 28 March 1967, she patrolled off North Vietnam, as part of Operation Sea Dragon, and protected aircraft carriers in the Tonkin Gulf, before arriving at Long Beach on 20 September. Underway from Long Beach to the western Pacific on 18 July 1968, she again guarded carriers in the Tonkin Gulf before returning to Long Beach on 26 February 1969.
In April, she became a Naval Reserve training ship at Tacoma, Washington. Decommissioned on 24 October, she was struck from the Navy list that day. She was sold on 10 December 1969 to the Republic of China, in whose navy she served as Heng Yang (DD-2) until she was stricken in May 1995.
Samuel N. Moore received five battle stars for World War II, three battle stars for Korea, and seven battle stars for Vietnam.
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—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
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—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1992)