Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After Diem. Even the South Vietnamese populace is impressed-no mean feat, considering the fact that for years the police had been little more than pawns in Saigon's political chess games. President Diem turned them into a family guard and on occasion played them off against the army. He created a subdivision known as the "combat police" that he used to raid pagodas during the feud with the Buddhists that ultimately led to his downfall. After Diem's government was overthrown, the canh sat were so demoralized that the Americans often called them "the white mice" because...
Gruening then read a 1954 letter from Eisenhower to the late President Diem of South Vietnam which promised only U.S. financial aid "to help move several hundred thousand people from North to South" if Diem's government maintained "Certain standards of performance" that included local reforms and respect both at home and abroad...
...President soon after he heard that Diem and Nhu were dead. He was sombre and shaken. I had not seen him so shaken since the Bay of Pigs. No doubt he realized that Vietnam was his great failure in foreign policy and that he had never really given it his full attention...
Duong Thien Dong, president of the Saigon Medical Students Association, said that the present government exerts less control than did that of Ngo Dinh Diem, and that he thinks students "no longer trust in one personality." But he added the youthfulness of members of Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky's administration had attracted the respect of the student movement...
Wrong Impression. The G.O.P. document traced the ever-deepening U.S. commitment in Viet Nam: Harry Truman's 1950 decision to aid the French in Indo-China; Dwight Eisenhower's 1954 pledge to support Ngo Dinh Diem's fledgling South Vietnamese government, principally with economic aid; John F. Kennedy's 1961 decision to expand the U.S. military effort as Laos crumbled and Viet Cong terror increased; and Lyndon's massive intensification of the U.S. involvement...