On 11 November 1960, a failed coup attempt against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was led by Lieutenant Colonel Vương Văn Đông and Colonel Nguyễn Chánh Thi of the Airborne Division of the Ar
The rebels demanded the removal of First Lady Madame Nhu (pictured left, with Lyndon Johnson)
Colonel Lansdale (pictured here as a major general), a CIA officer who assisted Diệm in the past, called for the removal of the US ambassador to Saigon
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
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Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. He was a general in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, became head
1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
…Saigon and rescue the president. Khanh used the remaining communication lines to message senior officers outside Saigon. The Fifth Division of Colonel Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, a future president, brought infantry forces from Biên Hòa, a town north of Saigon. The Seventh Division of Colonel Trần Thiện Khiêm brought in seven…
Official portrait, 1969
Thiệu and US President Lyndon B. Johnson
Thiệu (middle) and Nguyễn Chánh Thi (left) at Danang airfield.
Thiệu (left, first row) and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (right) in national arm forces day (19 June 1966).