The generals hated Tung, because, at Ngô Đình Nhu's instructions, he had disguised his men in regular army uniforms and framed them for the Xá Lợi pagoda raids several months earlier, in August.

Escalating the scale of American intervention in the ongoing conflict between Ngô Đình Diệm's South Vietnamese government and the communist National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam ( NLF ) insurgents opposing it, Johnson stationed some 575, 000 troops in Southeast Asia to defeat the NLF and their North Vietnamese allies in the Vietnam War, but his costly policy weakened the US economy and, by 1975, ultimately culminated in what most of the world saw as a humiliating defeat of the world's most powerful superpower at the hands of one of the world's poorest nations.

The elections were held, with Diệm's brother and confidant Ngô Đình Nhu, the leader of the family's Cần Lao Party, which supplied Diệm's electoral base, organising and supervising the elections.

By the 1920s, his three elder brothers Ngô Ðình Khôi, Ngô Ðình Thục and Ngô Đình Diệm were becoming prominent figures in Vietnam.

Attempts by Diệm and Nhu to make contact with Đình were blocked by other generals, whose staff claimed that Đình was elsewhere, leading Nhu and Diệm to believe he had been captured.

At certain periods during these 1, 100 years, Vietnam was independently governed under the Triệus, Trưng Sisters, Anterior Lýs, Khúcs and Dương Đình Nghệ-although their triumphs and reigns were brief.

In the north, most movements were led by former court officers and lasted decades, with Phan Đình Phùng fighting in central Vietnam until 1895.

Three other brothers, Ngô Đình Diệm, Ngô Đình Nhu and Ngô Đình Cẩn, were all politically active, and were all later assassinated during the political upheavals in Vietnam.

During the First and Second Indochina Wars, members of Cao Đài ( along with several other Vietnamese sects, such as Hòa Hảo ) were active in political and military struggles, both against French colonial forces and Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam.

When America began pushing for Ngô Đình Diệm to run South Vietnam, the most powerful groups to concern the Americans were the Cao Đài, the Bình Xuyên and the Hòa Hảo, which had formed a small private army under General Ba Cụt.

After an uprising by the Viet Minh in August 1945, her brother-in-law, Ngô Ðình Khôi, the eldest of the Ngô brothers, was buried alive, and Nhu and another brother, Ngô Đình Cẩn, were forced to flee.

Following the pagoda raids, Trí Quang was given asylum at the U. S. Embassy after Ngô Đình Nhu's plans to assassinate him were uncovered.

McGeorge Bundy thought her comments were so damaging that it would only be acceptable for Ngô Đình Diệm to remain in power if she were out of the picture.

Martin believed the ordinations of several sedevacantist bishops by the former Archbishop of Huế, Vietnam, Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục, although not allowed, were sacramentally valid.

Đình was put in charge of the fake coup and was allowed the additional control of the 7th Division based in Mỹ Tho, south of the capital, which was previously assigned to Diệm loyalist General Huỳnh Văn Cao, who was in charge of the IV Corps in the Mekong Delta.

The communists in southern Vietnam resolved that " if we are able to kill Ngô Đình Diệm, the leader of the current fascists dictatorial puppet government, the situation would develop along lines more favourable to our side.

At age fifteen he followed his elder brother, Ngô Đình Thục, later to become Vietnam's highest ranking Catholic bishop, into a monastery.

On 27 January 1958, the president of the Republic of Vietnam, Ngô Đình Diệm by Decree 18-BNV abrogated the town status of Nha Trang and divided Nha Trang into two rural communes: Nha Trang Đông ( Eastern Nha Trang ) and Nha Trang Tây ( Western Nha Trang ), under the administration of Vĩnh Xương County.

It is the first open protest against President Ngô Đình Diệm's regime since he came into power eight years earlier.

Nowadays, that stele has been found near Dinh Trung ( Đình Trung ) bridge, ward 2, Cao Lanh city.

Others that could be added are those derived from Aftimios Ofiesh, Carlos Duarte Costa, and Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục

Realising Diệm's popularity among American policymakers, he chose Diệm's youngest brother Ngô Đình Luyện, who was studying in Europe at the time, to be part of his delegation at the 1954 Geneva Conference to determine the future of Indochina.

Before the widely discredited 1955 referendum that saw Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm depose head of state Bảo Đại and proclaim himself President of the newly formed Republic of Vietnam, Lansdale advised Diệm, with whom had a close friendship, to not rig the poll and be content with a realistic 60-70 % result, advice Diệm did not take.

When it declared devoid of canonical effect the consecration ceremony conducted by Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục for the Carmelite Order of the Holy Face group at midnight of 31 December 1975, the Holy See refrained from pronouncing on its validity.

* 1955 – Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.

In a specific pronouncement in 1976, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared devoid of canonical effect the consecration ceremony conducted for the Palmarian Catholic Church by Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục on December 31, 1975, though it refrained from pronouncing on its validity.

From 1885 to 1895, Phan Đình Phùng led a rebellion against the colonizing power.

Amid religious protests that garnered worldwide attention, Diệm lost the backing of his U. S. patrons and was assassinated, along with his brother, Ngô Đình Nhu by Nguyễn Văn Nhung, the aide of ARVN General Dương Văn Minh on 2 November 1963, during a coup d ' état that deposed his government.

His full name was Jean Baptiste Ngô Đình Diệm.

His father, Ngô Đình Khả, scrapped plans to become a Roman Catholic priest and became a mandarin and counselor to Emperor Thành Thái during the French colonisation.

Ngô Đình Diệm, accompanied by U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, arrives at Washington National Airport in 1957.

However, South Vietnamese Premier Ngô Đình Diệm, who preferred American sponsorship to French, rejected the agreement.

Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm ousted him in a fraudulent referendum vote in 1955.

Bảo Đại moved to Paris, but remained " Head of State " of South Vietnam, appointing Ngô Đình Diệm as his prime minister.

Ngô Đình Diệm, who was previously appointed Prime Minister of South Vietnam by Emperor Bảo Đại, eventually assumed control of South Vietnam.

Led by Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnam refused to sign the Geneva Accord.

However, after the Japanese withdrew from Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Ba Đình Square.

From 1956-63, Lê played a moderating role between the two factions, but with the death of the South Vietnamese leader Ngô Đình Diệm and the Gulf of Tonkin incident, he became considerably more radical.

Lê Đức Thọ (; October 14, 1911 – October 13, 1990 ), born Phan Đình Khải in Ha Nam province, was a Vietnamese revolutionary, general, diplomat, and politician, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1973, although he declined it.

He was a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN ) during the rule of Ngô Đình Diệm.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

After making a short statement about human rights, and the freedom to travel, I told them I would be going to the Kehl bridge the next morning in order to cross the Rhine into Germany.

`` Well, I might not get that far '', I told them, `` as actually I have no papers to enter Germany and, as a matter of fact, no permit to return to France once I leave ''.

I've had a trying day and I just can't make it out again '', I told them.

During the trial he told off the jury, called them `` Just Asses '' and called a freeman `` a saucy boy and Jack-an-Apes ''.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

I have known some men and women who said that the selves they are told about or even remember seem utter strangers to them now ; ;

McFeeley told the parents he would escort them to police headquarters in a half hour.

The peddler came bawling his wares and told them of the convention in Wheeling, Which had formed a new state government by declaring the government at Richmond in the east illegal because they were traitors.

Dangling his gaudy trinkets before them, he told of the Rebel losses in the mountains, at Cheat and Rich mountains both, and the Federal march on Beverly.

`` All dey know down dere is it were at Manassas Junction and it were a big fight '', the old man told them.

It had gone big with the Hollywood girls when he told them his sister was an editor of Art And Apparel.

In place of asking salesmen to fill questionnaires, checking their references, interviewing them, asking them to be tried out, he told them he would prefer to test them.

Later it developed that the Soviets had a very different interpretation of democracy, which will be discussed later, and their judgment never told them that the Big Three should unite in establishing democratic conditions, as we understand them, within their zone of influence.

the Mexicans not only refused to give them, but told the possemen if they wanted a fight they could have it.

Ensign Vesole decided that he would not tarry until he heard the whispering of the bombs, and when night began to fall, he put Seaman 2/c Donald L. Norton and Seaman 1/c William A. Rochford on the guns and told them to start shooting the moment they saw an enemy silhouette.

I told them some sweet lies and they believed it all.

I know now why the students insisted that I go to Hiroshima even when I told them I didn't want to.

and I knew they knew it, for I'd told them a lot of it.

I wish you could have seen the crests fall on these two sparring coxcombs when I told them that obviously the pasture belonged to their wives jointly.

After reading his statement discharging the 23d ward case, Karns told Wexler that if the seven cases scheduled for trial also involved persons who had been subpenaed, he would dismiss them.