Examples of Ngo Dinh Diem in the following topics:
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- In South Vietnam, anti-Communist Ngo Dinh Diem had become prime minister in 1954, while Ho Chi Minh continued to rule the North.
- By 1960, North Vietnam had also created the National Liberation Front (NLF) to resist Diem and carry out an insurgency in the South.
- When Kennedy took office, Diem’s government was faltering.
- In May of 1961, Kennedy dispatched Lyndon Johnson to meet with South Vietnam's President Diem.
- Kennedy announced a change of policy from support to partnership with Diem in order to defeat communism in South Vietnam.
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- The South Vietnamese war effort was hindered by widespread corruption in the government of Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of South Vietnam (in power since 1955).
- Doubt arose among Washington D.D. policy-makers that Diem was capable of defeating the opposing Chinese Communist regime in the North; some feared Diem might negotiate with Ho Chi Minh, the president of North Vietnam.
- Discussions about South Vietnamese regime change began in Washington and were concluded on November 2, 1963, when the CIA aided a group of ARVN officers in the overthrew of Diem.
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- In 1954, he sent Allen Welsh Dulles as a delegate to the Geneva Conference, which ended the First Indochina War and temporarily partitioned Vietnam into a Communist northern half (under Ho Chi Minh) and a non-Communist southern half (under Ngo Dinh Diem).
- In February 1955, Eisenhower dispatched the first American soldiers to Vietnam as military advisors to Diem's army.
- After Diem announced the formation of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, commonly known as South Vietnam) in October, Eisenhower immediately recognized the new state and offered military, economic, and technical assistance.
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- From his home in France, Emperor Bao Dai appointed Ngo Dnh Diem as Prime Minister of South Vietnam.
- In 1955, with American support, Diem used a referendum to remove the former Emperor and declare himself the president of the Republic of Vietnam.