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363-08381 to 363-08389
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Title
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Article about President Thiệu and Vice President Ky
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Description
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Original title: "request", Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about President Thi?u and Vice President Ky, for the London Observer
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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SAIGON, NOVEMBER 13-Request for Mark Franklin of the Observer
begins as followst
Last month, a senior Vietnamese government
He
official explained: "(Vice President Nguyen Cao) Ky is impetuous.
says something and thinks about it later. Thieu thinks and thinks before
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The official
making a decision-and after two weeks he decides nothing.
also explained,
"Thieu's problem is the rightwing symbolized by
Nguyen Cao Ky and i Ha Thue Kyo so, in a way,
problem is Ky squared."
Thieu's
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The Palace dinonton discussions were
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of the mome to
essentially the story of these two men-Ky and Thieu-and the coalition
between them, disproving the above comments of the Vietnamese official,
ther Relation
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the pivot point in the American-South Vietnamese discussions.
Paradoxically,
the American officials during the past 15 months had
attempted to persuade the President and his Vice President to work together,
and they
instead of continuing their inte intra-mural squabbles,
the
refused until mid-October meeting meetings when the U. S. officials
Expected FND
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Yeast.
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During the Palace discussions, it was Ky, rather than Thieu, who
became the exponent of Vietnamese political e unity behind
the
Ky
President and held to this position even when an American ambassador
attempted to split Thieu and Ky in a separate meeting with the Vice President
i one point, Ky told an aide, "I no repeat no longer
Ky.
During
land my helicopter on the top of the President's bedroom (meaning on
the Presidential Palace roof). Instead I land it on the grass outside
his bedroom window. If I can de-escalate, so can the rest of you."
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Without Ky's support and that of the other het Vietnamese national
leaders, Thieu would have probant probably have
bly
have
given of in on what they
consider the essential point of Paris plus having a huge internal row
within his own government and body politio.
The coalition between Thieu
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and Ky later joined by other representatives government personalities including
Prime Minister Huong, began cementing with the growing disenchantment of 3"
the way the American officials were treating the government here and in Paris
but the cementing in the common to oppost opposition of even the dovi sh
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members of government believing that Thieu should refuse to sit down with the
Paris.
NLF
on an equal footing.
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Vietnamese
Taciturn and meditative, Thieu often has the style and grace of a
Calvin Coolidge the silent American President of the 1920s.
But, during the Palace soussionsk discussions, Thieu's public
statements and tv addresses became more artimated, emotional and convincing
to Vietnamese viewers.
Thieu is a master at intrigue; he has, thus far,
perfected the primary dictum of Vietnamese politics-name to survive. Of
the original hand-ful of general instrumental in overthrowing Diem
in 1963, only Thieu remains in power. Many have seized power, but none
except Thieu have held it. (Mark: you could argue the exception to this
is four-star general Tran Thien Khiem, currently Minister of Interior,
s who Thieu himself brought back from Taiwan).
a friend
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The French-educated Vietnamese salon politioans call Thieu "louvoyeur"
meaning "he's the best sailor in any kind of wind. If the wind is too strong,
he'll go downwind in order to go upstream later."
(After failing to
studied to become a
get his baccaulaureate from his high school, Thieu
captain of coastal ships in Indo-China waters and his friends still joke
with him that he has adapted the principles of seamanship to politics-
especially tacking). Other political sources call Thieu "a politioan who
n
can walk four directions at one time."
labelled him as "trum ohang" repeat "
under a blanket or fence-sitter).
is said to be ao tively neutral.
Few, however, have ever
sha "trum chang" (hiding head
Even when he is neutral, Thieu
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Thieu's official biography says he was born April 5, 1923, in
Ninh Thuong the son of a real estate owner. He married the
lovely and pleasant daughter of a Southern medical expert-her
father was not repeat not a full doctor
in 1930; she and Thieu have one
one
14-year-old daughter named Anh,
She was born in My Tho
seven-year-old son named Loo and
after graduating as
Thieu's military er career began in 1948;
pilot of the "petit cabotage" coastal ✰ line of the civilian merchant
marines which would have made him a rich man-Thieu decided instead to
switch to a military career and in 1948 he joined the first olass of
the Dalat National Military Academy. He later became superintendent
of the Academy, where he was popular with the instructors and students;
&&
he is now appointing some of these students or provincial and distriot
chiefs, informed sources said.
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After raduation t from Dalat in 1949, Thieu was sent to the
battlefield, where he first served as a platoon leader.
He has since held field command at every echelon, excluding the Joint
General Staff; he was company and battalion commander, regimental
commander, and subsequently commander of three Vietnamese
divisions the 21st, the 1st Infantry Division and the 5th Infantry
Division. Thieu was commander of the 5th Division outside Saigon during
the Diem coup;
Thieu brought his division to Saigon-and after hesitating
to determine that the coup was for
real rather than an abortive one-
he committed his division to fight Diem's Presidential Guard units, then
located near the current Prime Minister's office and Shell building on
Hong Thap Tu
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After that, Thieu was the secretary general of the first military
junta, headed by Big Minh, and concurrently chief of staff of RVN AF.
He played an important behind-the-scenes role in bringing Nguyen Thanh
to power in January, 1964,-but Thieu was more aligned with the Dai Viet
faction of the couplette than with the Khanh forces.
mon An Khanh
po named Thieu as commander of the Fourth Cu Corps in
Mekong Delta. After Khanh's overthrow, Thieu was deputy prime minister
and minister of defense in the Quat government, preceding Ky's
take-over, when Thieu moved up to the largely ceremonial position as
chief of state and chairman of the National Directory on June 19, 1965.
Then,
in 1967, Thieu outmaneuvered Ky to run as the military candidate
for President--which began the Ky-Thieu split that was not repeat not,
th.
last mon
patched up until the Di Bunker sessions began,
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Thieu's military training has taken him out of Vietnam four times.
In 1949, he studied at the Infantry School, Coetquidan, France. In 1957,
he attended the U. S. Army command and general staff college, Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1959, he attended the joint and combined planning
And, in 1960, he attended
school, pacific command,
Okinawa.
familiarization of moder weapons, Fort Bliss, Oklahoma.
As a S soldier, other Vietnamese military men regarded him
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as one of the better field commanders, a good organizer
a sem systematic
He
The fil
thinker, and was one of Diem's top briefers/because of the
articulate manner in which he organized briefings.
(Mark: this has covered the high spots in fairly superficial manner.
Hope tis of some help to you. Reponen are you Are you planning to
curtail your home leave-things are getting very juicy here.
Regards Bev).
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Date
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1968, Nov. 13
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B191, F5
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
