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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
Tôn Thất Thiện (1924–2014) was a South Vietnamese nationalist of the post-World War II generation who had the rare distinction of serving and watching at close quarters the two historic leaders of post-World War II Vietnam: presidents Ho Chi Minh in the Viet Minh coalition in 1945–46, and Ngô Đình Diệm 1954–55/1956–59/1963.
Nguyễn Thái aka Thai Nguyen (born January 30, 1930) is a former South Vietnamese government official who later attacked the regime of President Ngô Đình Diệm for its corruption. He was the first high-ranking government official to speak up against the Ngo family's corruption.
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 ...
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]
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.
The Ngo Dinh Diem government, abusing power, has thought only of personal ambition and slighted the fatherland's interests ... The army has swung into action. The task of you all is to unite ... The revolution will certainly be successful." The proclamation was endorsed by 14 generals, 7 colonels and a major.
At one stage, Dong wanted Diem to remain as a "supreme advisory" to a transitional regime made up of military officers and civilians. [23] The plotters unilaterally named Brigadier General Lê Văn Kim, the head of the Vietnamese National Military Academy, the nation's premier officer training school in Da Lat, would be their new prime minister ...