Presidential elections were held in South Vietnam on 3 September 1967. The result was a victory for Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, who received 35% of the vote. Voter turnout was 83%. The elections are widely considered to have been fraudulent.
Image: Portrait of Phan Khắc Sửu, Chief of State
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Thiệu takes the oath of office, 31 October 1967
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
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Nguyễn Cao Kỳ was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967. Then, until his retirement from politics in 1971, he served as vice president to bitter rival General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, in a nominally civilian administration.
Kỳ (far right), US President Lyndon B. Johnson, General William Westmoreland, and President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu together in October 1966
Kỳ with Lyndon Johnson during the Honolulu summit in Hawaiʻi in 1966
Kỳ with Prime Minister Harold Holt on his controversial 1967 visit to Australia.