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Ngo Dinh Diem
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The Asian people – long humiliated in their national aspirations, their human dignity injured – are no longer, as in the past, resigned and passive. They are impatient.
— "Address to the US Congress" (1957)
Ngo Dinh Diem
South Vietnamese politician; President of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963
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South Vietnam's first president, overthrown and killed in a CIA-backed coup after nine years of U.S.-supported rule ended in the 1963 Buddhist crisis. His assassination came one day after capture, on orders from the general who replaced him.
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Born in 1901 to a prominent Catholic family in French colonial Vietnam, Ngô Đình Diệm rose quickly through the imperial court, becoming interior minister in 1933 before resigning after three months and publicly denouncing Emperor Bảo Đại as a French puppet. He spent years in exile across Japan, the United States, and Europe, developing his Person Dignity Theory — a blend of French Personalism and Confucianism — before returning in July 1954 to accept appointment as prime minister. That same year the Geneva Conference partitioned Vietnam at the 17th parallel, and Diệm, consolidating power with…
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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We affirm that democracy is neither material happiness nor the supremacy of numbers.
— "Address to the US Congress" (1957)
Ngo Dinh Diem
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The Republic of Vietnam, the youngest republic in Asia, soon will be two years old. Our Republic was born among great suffering.
— "Address to the US Congress" (1957)
Ngo Dinh Diem
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It is a fundamental truth that laws do not cover all the aspects of life, and a Constitution does not create a democracy.
— "Message on the occasion of the Promulgation of the Constitution." (1956)
Ngo Dinh Diem
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Now for more than a century, abnormal political conditions have corrupted the sense of civic responsibility in many a mind.
— "Message on the occasion of the Promulgation of the Constitution." (1956)
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