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	Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Madame Nhu (born 1924 in Hanoi, Vietnam), also known as Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu and born Tran Le Xuan, was the granddaughter of Emperor Dong Khanh.
		Madame Nhu was said to be called the " Dragon Lady" because she said she would "clap hands at seeing another monk barbecue show." (She was referring to the Buddhist monks who poured flammable liquids over themselves and meditated calmly while burning themselves to death).
		Madame Nhu was in Beverly Hills, California at the time since October, with her daughter, Le Thuy, for a trip to the United States and Italy, where she intended to expose a scheming President John F. Kennedy and the CIA to the American public.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madame_Ngo_Dinh_Nhu (885 words)

	Le Xuan - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu or Madame Nhu, born Tran Le Xuan, a granddaughter of Emperor Dong Khanh and she was married to Ngo Dinh Nhu.
		Madame Nhu was in Beverly Hills, California at the time the news first broke, and she immediately suspected the United States saying, "Whoever has the Americans as allies does not need enemies".
		Madame Nhu had all of her property confiscated by the new military government in Saigon and was not allowed back in the country.
	www.iridis.com /Le_Xuan (425 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ngo Dihn Diem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		His brother's wife Madame Nhu was South Vietnam's First Lady and she led the way in Diem's programs to reform Saigon society according to his own Catholic values.
		At the time of the coup d'etat Madame Nhu was in Beverly Hills, California with her daughter, Le Thuy, for a trip to the United States and Italy, where she intended to expose a scheming President John F. Kennedy and the CIA to the American public.
		When Madame Nhu learned of the coup d'etat she immediately suspected the United States saying, "Whoever has the Americans as allies does not need enemies".
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ngo-Dihn-Diem (1148 words)

	Encyclopedia: Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu
		Ngo Dinh Nhu Ngo Dinh Nhu was born in Vietnam, he was the younger brother and chief political advisor of South Vietnams first President Ngo Dinh Diem and their brother Bishop Thuc of Hue.
		Madame Nhu would attempt to combine Confucian Nationalism with herself as a modern reincarnation of Vietnam’s fabled Trung Sisters who temporarily defeated the Han Dynasty Chinese troops in 40 A.D. Ngô Đình Diệm Ngô Đình Diệm (pronounced Yim) (January 3, 1901–November 2, 1963) was the first President of South Vietnam (1955-63).
		In the late 1960s, her daughter Le Thuy was killed in an automobile crash in Paris, France On October 16, 1971, Madame Nhu was robbed of more than $32,000 worth of jewelry in Rome, Italy, which was reported by the New York Times.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Madame-Ngo-Dinh-Nhu (2161 words)

	Ngo Dinh Nhu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ngo Dinh Nhu was born in Vietnam, he was the younger brother and chief political advisor of South Vietnam's first President Ngo Dinh Diem and their brother Bishop Thuc of Hue.
		On November 1, 1963, he was assassinated, along with his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem, by Captain Nhung during a coup d'etat led by General Duong Van Minh with the understanding that the United States would not intervene.
		At the time of the coup d'etat Madame Nhu was in Beverly Hills, California their daughter, Le Thuy, for a trip to the United States and Italy, where she intended to expose a scheming President John F. Kennedy and the CIA to the American public.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Nhu (286 words)

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		Unquestionably, his greatest liability is Madame Nhu, towards whom these same elements express an intense and indeed very personal hostility on the ground that she is vicious, meddlesome, neurotic, or worse.
		Nhu and his wife would be fortunate to escape with their lives, and in fact there have been reports of at least one plot in which the Nhus would be murdered, but Diem retained in power to preside over a reoriented GVN.
		Madame Nhu is again a factor, in that she and Can detest each other.
	www.presidency.ucsb.edu /vietnam/showdoc.php?docid=2 (5727 words)

	Ngo Dinh Nhu
		Ngo Dinh Nhu ran his brother's regime of secret political movements, the Can Lao.
		He was assassinated, along with his brother, during the 1963 coup.
		Nhu's wife, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu[?] or "Madame Nhu", was also influential on government policy and, since her brother-in-law leader was unmarried, was regarded as the "First Lady" of Vietnam.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ng/Ngo_Dinh_Nhu.html (65 words)

	Author's Desktop: James Ellroy
		Madame Nhu had convinced Diem to sponsor edicts abolishing divorce, contraceptives, abortion, boxing matches, beauty contests and opium dens.
		Kennedy and the new Vietnamese ambassador, Henry Cabot Lodge, concluded that the Diem regime was becoming an embarrassing liability, and that Ngo Dinh Nhu and Madame Nhu were the heart of the problem.
		Madame Nhu was in the U.S. Premier Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu hid in the basement of the presidential palace.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/ellroy/desktop7.html (2873 words)

	Le Xuan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She was outspoken, anti- communist, feminist and totally devoted to her husband, whom she regarded as being the most important man in the South Vietnam ese regime.
		During the Diem administration, Madame Nhu formed military units for women and pushed for the passing of the ' morality law s'.
		Madame Nhu was said to be called the " Dragon Lady" because she said she would "clap hands at seeing another monk barbecue show." (She was referring to the Buddhist monks who poured flammable liquid s over themselves and meditated calmly while burning themselves to death).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Le-Xuan.htm (523 words)

	I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Madame Nhu’s father and mother spent their whole lives in both the spotlights of Vietnam and the world.
		This religious conversion for Madame Nhu was not as great as it would have been for many other Vietnamese girls since she had spent most of her youth in Hanoi as a dutiful student of nuns.
		Madame Nhu is not the only Asian political woman who has been subjected to this charge of responsibility for her husband’s problems.
	www.nssa.us /nssajrnl/20_1/html/Madame_Nhu_hess.htm (2604 words)

	Documents 242-260
		Regarding Madame Nhu's speech to the Women's Solidarity Movement, I told him that it was considered by my government and myself, as well as by a number of Vietnamese with whom I had spoken, as inflammatory and directly contrary to the President's policy of conciliation.
		Nhu did not defend the content of his wife's speech, but defended at great length her right to make it as a private citizen who "does not speak for the government".
		Comparison of Madame Nhu and Senator Mansfield will not be well accepted here, and his remarks on Mme Nhu will not suffice as GVN repudiation of her intemperate attacks on Buddhists.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/iii/8170.htm (15842 words)

	Askaroo : Madame Nhu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Madame Nhu was said to be called the "Dragon Lady" because she said she would
		Madame Nhu was in Beverly Hills, California at the time since October, with her
		Madame Nhu went on to predict a dark future for Vietnam and that, by being
	www.askaroo.com /info/Madame_Nhu.html (897 words)

	Ngo Dinh Diem biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		His wife, Madame Nhu, led the way in Diem's programs to reform Saigon society according to his own Catholic values.
		The U.S. tacitly supported a military coup d'etat of ARVN generals that overthrew the government and executed Diem, his younger brother ( Dinh Nhu) and others, on November 1, 1963.
		When news reached Madame Nhu, who was travelling in the U.S., she said, "Whoever has the Americans as allies does not need enemies" and predicted that the trouble in Vietnam was only beginning.
	ngo-dihn-diem.biography.ms (1175 words)

	Encyclopedia: Chiang Kai-shek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek with General Stilwell in Burma ( 1942).
		During and after World War II, Chiang and his American-educated wife Soong May-ling, commonly referred to as "Madame Chiang Kai-shek", held the unwavering support of the United States China Lobby which saw in them the hope of a Christian and democratic China.
		Chiang Kai-shek's policies were far from Christian or democratic, but this remained unknown to the U.S. public due to strong state-imposed censorship in China and self-imposed censorship in the U.S. during the war years and after.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chiang-Kai_shek (9474 words)

	The Pentagon Papers, Vol. 2, Chapter 4, "The Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem, May-November, 1963" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Nhu had been initially cool to the idea, but once he established the U.S. willingness to fund the program, he focused on it as the principal vehicle of the counterinsurgency campaign and as an excellent means of extending the oligarchy's control into the countryside.
		Nhu publicly ridiculed the Buddhist suicide as a "barbecue," accused the Buddhist leaders of being infiltrated with communists, and construed the protest movement as Viet Cong inspired.
		Both Nhu and his wife worked publicly and privately to undermine Diem's feeble efforts at compromise with the Buddhists, and rumors that Nhu was considering a coup against his brother began to circulate in July.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/pentagon2/pent6.htm (14708 words)

	Documents 116-145
		Nhu is "un barbare" and Diem is an incompetent.
		Nhu is held clearly responsible by the people of Saigon for repression by the Government--he is the focal point of their bitterness and hate.
		Nhu are mainly to blame for the disastrous course of events and must be ousted.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/iv/12649.htm (16913 words)

	About South Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Nhu, whose wife is known as the Eva Peron of South Vietnam, is in Saigon, as advisor to the President.
		Behind Madame Nhu in a web of palace intrigue was the figure of her mother, Madame Tran van Chuong, formerly a Councilor of the French Union.
		A special refugee village constituency was created for Madame Nhu; even so, she polled less than 5,000 votes out of a possible 25,000.
	www.jbs.org /artman/publish/printer_351.shtml (2640 words)

	BRITISHPATHE.COM \| (MADAME NHU IN ROME) \| 3137.07 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		VS Madame Nhu (Former First Lady of Vietnam) leaves plane followed by her daughter Le Thuy, they get straight into waiting car and drive off.
		Title: (MADAME NHU IN ROME) TcIn: 1:19:21:00 TcOut: 1:21:18:00 Summary: Madame Nhu (Former First Lady of Vietnam) arrives with her daughter in Rome.
		Madame Nhu (Former First Lady of Vietnam) arrives with her daughter in Rome.
	www.britishpathe.com /thumb_pf.php?id=83263 (186 words)

	Ngo Dinh Diem - Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When the regime turned on a protest by Buddhist monks in June 1963, he lost American aid too; some monks had immolated themselves in protest.
		Diem and Nhu claimed that the Communists had infiltrated the Buddhist groups and Madame Nhu referred to the incident as a 'barbequeing'.
		The U.S. supported a military coup d'etat of ARVN generals that overthrew the government and executed Ngo, his younger brother ( Dinh Nhu) and some others in November.
	www.greatestinfo.org /Ngo_Dinh_Diem (776 words)

	FemiStyle - Mars/Venus
		Madame Nhu, zoals ze zichzelf noemt, steekt op haar homemade website de draak met Mr Smartypants en verwelkomt hem zoals het een échte webmaster betaamt, met een teller die je nauwkeurig meldt de hoeveelste geperverteerde bezoeker je wel niet bent.
		Madame Nhu geeft Westerse perverten die op de The Big Bad Chinese Mama'-site terechtkomen een fameuze opdonder, een stamp in hun kruis daarbij de eerlang bestaande oud-Aziatische gevechtstechnieken in ere herstellend.
		Madame Nhu volgde de opleiding 'Vrouwenstudies' aan de universiteit en hield het na één jaar al voor bekeken.
	www.femistyle.be /nl/marsvenus/asian_brides.shtml (694 words)

	Documents 245-278
		Colby of CIA and former Ambassador Nolting about brother Nhu because the fact was that brother Nhu did not wish power but that he had such a flexible spirit and was always so full of good advice that people would ask him for his advice.
		At the big circle in which [stands] the statue of the Trung sisters which was modeled in the image of Madame Nhu, young men were busy with acetylene torches cutting the statues off at the feet and putting cables around the necks so as to topple them to the ground.
		Deaths of Diem and Nhu, whatever their failings, has caused shock here and there is danger that standing and reputation of incoming government may be significantly damaged if conviction spreads of their assassination at direction of one or more senior members of incoming regime.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/iv/12653.htm (14817 words)

	Articles - Ngo Dinh Diem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In their defense, Diá»m and Nhu claimed that the Communists had infiltrated the Buddhist groups, and that their crackdown was in accordance with the agreed-upon anti-Communist policy.
		U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge refused to meet with Diá»m and began to encourage ARVN Generals led by General DÆ°Æ¡ng VÄn Minh that overthrew the government and ordered Captain Nhung to execute President Diá»m, his younger brother NgÃ´ ÄÃ¬nh Nhu, on November 1, 1963.
		The U.S leadership had publicly expressed shock and disappointment that Diá»m had been killed, but records show that they made no attempts to dissuade the plotters from such an action, and were not surprised with the coup.
	www.kamero.net /articles/Ngo_Dinh_Diem (1240 words)

	American Passages - Unit 15. Poetry of Liberation: Author Activities
		Madame Nhu, wife of the head of the Vietnamese secret police, was the official hostess of the U.S.-controlled South Vietnamese government.
		When a Buddhist monk immolated himself in Saigon as a protest against the government's favoritism of Catholicism (the majority of South Vietnamese were Buddhist), Madame Nhu called the suicide a "barbecue" and offered to light the match for the next one.
		When she came to the University of California, Berkeley, campus in 1963, she was met with a wide variety of protests.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit15/author_activ-4c.html (309 words)

	St. John's Preparatory School - Social Studies Department Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Diem became insular, relying upon his brother Nhu and his wife, Madame Nhu for critical support and advice.
		To counter Viet Cong successes in 1961 and 1962, Nhu began the Strategic Hamlet Program which was designed to isolate Vietnamese peasants from the guerillas, thereby denying communists the support of the southern population.
		Diem and Nhu were assassinated and the overthrow of the Diem Regime was successful.
	stjohnsprep.org /teachers/wbritton/vietnam/notes_americas_mandarin.html (1020 words)

	History Channel - Speeches - Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, sister-in-law of President Diem: On the assassination of Diem and her ...
		On November 2, 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his closest adviser, his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, were killed in a U.S.-instigated military coup.
		Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu served as first lady for her bachelor brother-in-law and earned the nickname "Dragon Lady" for her callousness toward the Buddhists.
		Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu was in the United States at the time on a speaking tour, and she condemned the U.S. government for its rumored role in the coup.
	www.historychannel.com /speeches/archive/speech_488.html (407 words)

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