Ngo Dinh Diem

And there is nothing about the 1955 southern referendum—a “travesty on democratic procedures,” according to the U.S. ambassador in Saigon—that ousted Bao Dai, elevated Ngo Dinh Diem to president of the newly declared Republic of Vietnam, and apparently justified Diem’s decision to ignore the Geneva accords’ call for a 1956 nationwide election.

The Democrats position themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and Vietnam, when President Ngo Dinh Diem was as lionized as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now.

In South Vietnam, a U.S.-backed leader named Ngo Dinh Diem took power in the capital city of Saigon.

He was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngo Dinh Diem, a staunch Catholic.

And the less said about my administration's complicity in the murder of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem the better.