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How Did Ngo Dinh Influence Madam Nhu's Administration

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In 1954, the Geneva Accords set Vietnam into two separate national entities. The country was temporarily divided into north and south, gradually follow the roadmap of free election and independence. While the North was communist-controlled, the South was backed by the United States and the allies under the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. Without political background or network, Diem relies on American advisors and his own family, including his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu and sister-in law: Tran Le Xuan (Madam Nhu), the only woman that caused headache to the most powerful leader of a number one nation in the world. Madam Nhu was considered to put the Diem’s regime to an end by publicly mocking Thich Quang Duc, who performed a self-immolation on 11 June 1963 …show more content…

Jeffery Record, an author and defense analysis, stated in his well-known book “Why we lost in Vietnam” that, despite extensive travel and education in the West, he (President Diem) remained what he had been raised a mandarin Imperial Hue…conservative Catholicism. The political apparatus he created to extend his power and implement his program reflected his background and experience, a rigidly organized, over-centralized family oligarchy”. This explains why for a long time, people believe that the South Vietnam government power was in the hand of Madam Nhu and her husband. Demery described Nhu’s role in her book that Nhu always made sure to defer to his brother, the president, in public, but the perception was increasingly that Nhu was in charge. That made him a target. (Demery, …show more content…

She was the second of three children of a wealthy family. Her father was an attorney who earned his education and degree in Paris. Her mother, Madam Chuong was from a formal royal family. During 1920s, Vietnam was French’s colony and both sides of her family served the French. Growing up, Madam Nhu attended a prestigious French-speaking high school in Vietnam. In 1943, she married Ngo Dinh Nhu, a man nearly twice her age who was the younger brother of Ngo Dinh Diem. At that time, Diem was just beginning to attract attention as a political figure

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