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Ngô Ðình Nhu (; 7 October 1910 – 2 November 1963 ) was the younger brother and chief political advisor of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Ðình Diệm.
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Ngô and Ðình
After graduating at the top of his class in 1921, Diệm followed in the footsteps of his eldest brother, Ngô Ðình Khôi, joining the civil service.
By the 1920s, his three elder brothers Ngô Ðình Khôi, Ngô Ðình Thục and Ngô Đình Diệm were becoming prominent figures in Vietnam.
In autumn of 1984, the priests sought out a bishop to ordain clergy for CMRI and found Bishop George Musey of Galveston, Texas, whose episcopal lineage can be traced to Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Ðình Thục.
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.
They had a son and three daughters, including Lệ Xuân, who became the wife of Ngô Ðình Nhu, the brother of South Vietnam's first President, Ngô Ðình Diệm.
Ngô and Nhu
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.
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.
Nhu used the Cần Lao, which he organised into cells, to infiltrate every part of society to root out opposition to the Ngô family.
He was known for making such public statements as promising to demolish the Xá Lợi pagoda and vowing to kill his estranged father-in-law, Trần Văn Chuơng, who was the regime's Ambassador to the United States, after the elder man condemned the Ngô family's behavior and disowned his daughter, Nhu's wife, Madame Nhu.
On 1 November 1963, the coup proceeded, and the Ngô brothers ( Nhu and Diệm ) were detained and assassinated the next day.
Around 1950, Nhu started the forerunner of what would become Cần Lao ( Personalist Labor Party ), forming the power base and control mechanism of the Ngô family.
Pervaded by family corruption, Nhu competed with his brother Ngô Đình Cẩn, who ruled the northern areas for U. S. contracts and rice trade.
" Nhu had no idea that Đình's real intention was to engulf Saigon with rebel units and lock Tung's loyalists in the countryside where they could not defend the Ngô family.
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.
Madame Nhu was influential on government policy and, since her brother-in-law, Ngô Đình Diệm, was unmarried, she was regarded as the First Lady of South Vietnam.
Ngô and (;
Ngô Đình Diệm (; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963 ) was the first president of South Vietnam ( 1955 – 1963 ).
Ngô and October
Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục () ( 6 October 1897 – 13 December 1984 ) was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế, Vietnam.
On October 26, 1955, the Republic of Vietnam was established and Ngô Đình Diệm became the first President of the Republic.
Ngô and –
When Ngô Quyền ( King of Vietnam ) ( 939 – 944 ) restoring sovereign power in the country, the next millennium Vietnam advanced by the accomplishments of a series of dynasties: Ngôs, Đinhs, Prior Lês, Lýs, Trầns, Hồs, Posterior Trầns, Later Lês, Mạcs, Trịnhs, Nguyễns, Tây Sơns and again Nguyễns.
He joined the Vietnamese National Popular League ( or Liên Việt ) in 1948, Communist Party in 1949, and was kept in detention from 1950 – 52, he later came to support the 1954 Geneva agreements, but opposed the régime of South Vietnam's president, Ngô Đình Diệm.
Ngô and November
On 11 November 1960, Colonels Vương Văn Đông and Nguyễn Chánh Thi launched a coup attempt against President Ngô Đình Diệm, but after surrounding the palace, they stopped attacking and decided to negotiate a power-sharing agreement.
On 1 November 1963, Chuong's son-in-law Ngô Ðình Nhu and Nhu's brother, President Ngô Ðình Diệm were assassinated in a coup d ' état led by General Dương Văn Minh.
He helped President Ngô Đình Diệm put down a November 1960 coup attempt and was rewarded with promotion.
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