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1st President of South Vietnam; In office 26 October 1955 – 2 November 1963: Vice President: Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ: Preceded by: Position established Bảo Đại as Chief of the State of Vietnam
Some slogans exhorted the populace to vote for Diem: "To vote for Ngo Dinh Diem's revolutionary cause is to build a society of welfare and justice", portraying him as a patriotic man tough on communism, proclaiming to "kill communists, depose the king, [and] struggle against colonialists is a citizen's duty in a free Vietnam." [34]
On 2 November 1963, Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, was arrested and assassinated in a CIA-backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh.After nine years of autocratic and nepotistic family rule in the country, discontent with the Diệm regime had been simmering below the surface and culminated with mass Buddhist protests against longstanding religious ...
Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu had been exploited by the help of CIA advisors to help defeat one of the challenges to the new Prime Minister's authority. Lansdale and the South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem had been working together; however, they did not agree on the government system they wanted in South Vietnam.
President Ngo Dinh Diem and family at his home in Hue (Central Viet Nam).jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem on an inspection tour 350 km from Saigon (December, 1956).jpg; Portrait of Ngô Đình Diệm, from the book Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam.jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem with the troops who defeated the Binh-Xuyen at Rung-Sat (May, 1955).jpg
Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 70– 80. ISBN 0-7425-4447-8. The Battle of Saigon, by Thê ́Vinh Ngô.
"a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955), and then was the first president of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) from 1955 until he was captured and assassinated during the 1963 South Vietnamese coup."
Ngô Đình Nhu listen ⓘ (7 October 1910 – 2 November 1963) baptismal name James, (Vietnamese: Giacôbê) was a Vietnamese archivist and politician. [1] He was the younger brother and State Counsellor of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm.