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Ngo Dinh Diem

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Ngo Dinh Diem see Diem, Ngo Dinh .

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America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...between the overthrow of President Diem and the fall of Saigon. In 1963...the French withdrew from Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem became president of the Republic of Vietnam. Minh went to work for Diem's new regime, first earning the...
Lodge, Henry Cabot
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Lodge tried unsuccessfully to get Diem to remove his unpopular brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, from the government...ambassador concluded that Diem was politically doomed...

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