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	MSN Encarta - Search View - Diem, Ngo Dinh
		Diem’s father was a prominent government official and adviser to the emperor, who had nominal rule under French control.
		As president, Diem’s first actions included returning to wealthy landlords the land given to peasants by the Viet Minh; forcibly moving rural villagers from their ancestral homes and placing them in controlled settlements that were intended to suppress any Communist activity; and conscripting village males into the ARVN.
		The Diem regime was revealed to the U.S. public as brutal and corrupt, although it had been portrayed as representing democracy and freedom in South Vietnam.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761576219__1/Diem_Ngo_Dinh.html (934 words)

	Diem, Ngo Dinh on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A member of an influential Roman Catholic family, he was a civil servant before World War II and was connected with the nationalists during the war.
		Opposition grew as Diem's authoritarianism increased and as South Vietnam's position in the Vietnam War deteriorated.
		With the apparent connivance of the U.S. government, a group of dissident generals staged a coup in 1963, and Diem was murdered during the takeover.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/diem-n1go.asp (470 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: President Eisenhower to Ngo Dinh Diem, President of the Council of Ministers of Vietnam, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Modern History Sourcebook: President Eisenhower to Ngo Dinh Diem, President of the Council of Ministers of Vietnam, October 23, 1954
		Letter from President Eisenhower to Ngo Dinh Diem, President of the Council of Ministers of Vietnam, October 23, 1954
		The implications of the agreement concerning Viet-Nam have caused grave concern regarding the future of a country temporarily divided by an artificial military grouping, weakened by a long and exhausting war and faced with enemies without and by their subversive collaborators within.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1954-eisenhower-vietnam1.html (419 words)

	Assassination of President Kennedy: Solved at Last!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		President Kennedy is hit by at least two bullets, one through the throat and another blows off the back of his head as his entourage casually watches the cold-blooded murder.
		Diem was a favorite son, all their hopes of making Asia Catholic were pinned on him.
		Madam Nhu, sister in law to President Diem and wife of the head of the dreaded secret police clearly blamed Kennedy for her husband's assassination.
	www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/assassination_kennedy.htm (1558 words)

	The History Place - Vietnam War 1961-1964
		Diem and his brother Nhu are trapped inside the palace and reject all appeals to surrender.
		Diem then calls Lodge and asks "...what is the attitude of the United States?" Lodge responds "...it is four thirty a.m.
		Diem and Nhu are then taken into custody by rebel officers and placed in the back of an armored personnel carrier.
	www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/vietnam/index-1961.html (3720 words)

	American Engagement 1960-1964
		President Diem is re-elected as President of South Vietnam.
		President Kennedy sends Ambassador Lodge a mixed messaged that "no initiative should now be taken to give any encouragement to a coup" but that Lodge should "identify and build contacts with possible leadership as and when it appears".
		President Kennedy concurs and the CIA in Saigon then signals the conspirators that the United States will not interfere with the overthrow of President Diem.
	ichiban1.org /html/history/bc_1964_prewar/america_engages_1960_1964.htm (2863 words)

	Vietnam War Article, VietnamWar Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1955the South Vietnamese monarchy was abolished and Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem became President of a new South Vietnamese republic.
		The Pentagon told President Johnson on November 27, 1965 that if planned major sweep operations needed to neutralize NLF forces during the nextyear were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam needed to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
		President Bush and many of his neoconservative allies have found themselves derisively characterized as " Chickenhawks " foradvocating these military actions in light of their not having served in the armed forces during the Vietnam era.
	www.anoca.org /vietnamese/south/vietnam_war.html (7310 words)

	Two Vietnams - 1954-1960
		Diem is advised by the CIA to conduct a plebiscite and let the people decide.
		President Diem receives a letter from North Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Van Dong proposing a discussion on troop reductions and trade relations as a renewed step towards reunification.
		A failed coup against President Diem by disgruntled South Vietnamese Army officers brings a harsh crackdown against all perceived 'enemies of the state.' Over 50,000 are arrested by police controlled by Diem's brother Nhu with many innocent civilians tortured then executed.
	ichiban1.org /html/history/bc_1964_prewar/the_two_nations_1954_1963.htm (1600 words)

	Documents 245-278
		Diem then spoke of a number of small student groups who had been worked on by the Communists and who intended to throw hand grenades and plastic bombs while the UN Commission was here.
		Diem repeated what he said to Admiral Felt that the Special Forces were really under the Joint General Staff and that it was a very serious thing to cut off the Special Forces from the people who were dependent upon the [garble] North Vietnam and who needed their support.
		Diem was stubborn to the end; in fact when Dinh, as tactical commander, got the President on the telephone at 0600H, Diem demanded the immediate surrender of the coup forces.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/iv/12653.htm (14777 words)

	Church Committee Report On Diem Coup
		South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, were assassinated during a coup by Vietnamese generals on November 2, 1963.
		President, if I was manager of a baseball team, I had one pitcher, I'd keep him in the box whether he was a good pitcher or not.
		By that I was saying that, if Diem was removed we would have not one coup but we would have a succession of coups and political disorder in Vietnam and it might last several years and indeed it did.
	25thaviation.org /history/id549.htm (3594 words)

	JFK and the Diem Coup
		Diem had originally come to power by legal means, appointed prime minister of the government that had existed in 1954, and he had then consolidated power through a series of military coups, quasi-coups, a government reorganization, a referendum on his leadership, and finally a couple of staged presidential elections.
		President Diem's response to the Buddhist crisis, once he passed beyond denying that anything was happening, was to promise political and religious reforms, and negotiations for a modus vivendi with the Buddhists were carried out in Saigon.
		President Diem's worsening situation led him to declare martial law in August 1963, and on August 21 Ngo Dinh Nhu used the martial law authority to carry out major raids on the largest pagodas of the Buddhist group behind the protests.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101 (5518 words)

	President Ngo Dinh Diem's fate. CIA-CSI Report: 1963-1965 CIA Judgments on President Johnson's Decision To "Go ...
		On 23 May, seven weeks after his confrontation with Diem, Ambassador Nolting signed off on a Washington draft of a contingency plan for the US role in the event of a change of government in Vietnam, then took off for a holiday in the Aegean Sea on his way back to Washington on home leave.
		At that White House meeting, the DCI told President Kennedy that Washington was handling a delicate situation in a nonprofessional manner, that the dissident Saigon generals could not provide strong leadership, and that their coup would be simply the first of others that would follow.
		And when President Johnson met with his principal advisers on 19 November for a progress report on the Bundy group's efforts, Rusk, McNamara, and Bundy himself refrained from mentioning the doubts the group's intelligence officers had raised.
	ngothelinh1.tripod.com /CIA_CSI.html (10330 words)

	President Kennedy letter to President Diem, December 14, 1961 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		President Kennedy letter to President Diem, December 14, 1961, Department of State Bulletin, January 1, 1962, p.
		President: I have received your recent letter in which you described so cogently the dangerous condition caused by North Viet-Nam's efforts to take over your country.
		In any case, we are confident that the Vietnamese people will preserve their independence and gain the peace and prosperity for which they have sought so hard and so long.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/pentagon2/ps14.htm (399 words)

	AllRefer.com - Duong Van Minh (Southeast Asia History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		A military adviser (1962–63) to President Diem, he helped to overthrow Diem in 1963.
		Minh returned in 1968, serving as an opposition leader against President Thieu.
		He returned briefly as president in 1975, in an unsuccessful conciliation effort but was placed in detention after the Communist takeover.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Minh-Duo.html (200 words)

	Episode 2, 1963-1965 CIA Judgments on President Johnson's Decision To "Go Big" in Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On 9 May of that year, JCS Chairman Lyman L. Lemnitzer urged that Diem should be encouraged to request that the United States fulfill its collective security obligation by sending "appropriate" forces to Vietnam.
		This preliminary study was translated into a formal interdepartmental examination, as one response to an NSC directive of 14 February 1964 that established a special Vietnam Task Force under the direction of State Department officer William H. Sullivan.
		The President's response to McCone's parting advice was to ask his successor, Admiral Raborn, to comment on it, and Raborn apparently left his swearing-in ceremony 28 April with McCone's memo of that date in hand.
	www.odci.gov /csi/books/vietnam/epis2.html (12772 words)

	National Liberation Front Anti-American Leaflets Uused During the Vietnam War
		Diem could justify his decision by saying that the GVN was democratic, made up of many different parties that would split the vote.
		Diem’s success against their movement in the south convinced them that more violent tactics were required.
		U.S. President John F. Kennedy sent the first of the troops after the DRVN unified the South Vietnamese communist insurgents in an organization called the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam on 20 December 1960.
	www.psywarrior.com /VCLeafletsProp.html (7366 words)

	Learn more about November 1 in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		1800 - US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
		1861 - American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George McClellan as commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.
		1960 - While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /n/no/november_1.html (832 words)

	ipedia.com: 1963 Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		November 22 - John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn-in as the 36th President of the United States.
		November 25 - John F. Kennedy assassination: The late US President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
		November 29 - John F. Kennedy assassination: US President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
	www.ipedia.com /1963.html (1440 words)

	Read about 1901 at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research 1901 and learn about 1901 here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President
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	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/1901 (655 words)

	Federal Government Resources on the Web/President
		Various definitions for who was the first President of the U.S. Ranges from Peyton Randolph to John Hanson or Samuel Huntington
		Excerpts of taped conversations on the overthrow of Vietnamese President Diem in 1962, the CIA, and Watergate in Word 97
		Richardson's Compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1897 is located in Buhr as: J 81.B96
	www.lib.umich.edu /govdocs/fedprs.html (2081 words)

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