Finding the Dragon Lady (40 page)

    
See also
Ngo Dinh Diem
;
Ngo Dinh Nhu

Ngo Dinh Can,
12
,
56
,
219

Ngo Dinh Diem,
37
,
62
,
74–77
,
149

    
as administrative supervisor,
73

    
and Bao Dai,
81
,
88
,
90
,
95

    
and Binh Xuyen police, battle against,
89–90

    
biographical information,
72–73

    
and Buddhist monk, self-immolation of,
161–162
,
163

    
and Buddhist pagodas, raids on,
164–166
,
166–167

    
as chief of state,
95

    
and Collins, J. Lawton,
85

    
and communism/Communists,
76–77
,
94
,
95

    
and coup attempt of 1960,
112
,
113–114

    
and Dai Viet Phu Hung Hoi (the Association for the Restoration of Great Vietnam), building of,
75

    
and democracy,
94–95

    
description of,
74–75

    
as district chief,
73

    
and election,
95

    
and fake body counts,
122

    
and fake coup scheme,
201–204

    
and flag-flying and bombing incident,
163–164

    
and the French, hatred between,
80
,
81
,
83
,
88

    
as governor of Phan Thiet,
73

    
and Ho Chi Minh,
75–76

    
and Japan,
76

    
and Johnson, Lyndon,
124
,
131–132

    
and Lansdale, Edward,
80–81
,
84

    
and martial law,
164–165
,
200

    
in New York City,
180–181

    
and Ngo Dinh Nhu,
77
,
84–85

    
and Nhu, Madame,
5
,
80–81
,
98–99
,
102
,
113–114
,
140

    
and Nhu, Madame, and banishment to Belgrade,
166–167

    
and Nhu, Madame, demonstration in favor of,
86–88

    
and Nhu, Madame, dependence on,
163

    
and Personalist Labor Party personality of,
97–98

    
political ineptness of,
83–85

    
as president of South Vietnam,
90
,
93–94
,
95
,
99–100

    
and presidential palace, move to,
92–93

    
as prime minister of South Vietnam,
73–74
,
74–75
,
79–81
,
90

    
as prisoner of the Communists,
75

    
retirement in 1933,
73

    
and social gatherings, as president,
99–100

    
and Tran Thi Le Chi,
109

    
and Tran Van Chuong, insults from,
187

    
and Tran Van Khiem,
12

    
and United States,
76–77
,
88

    
and US public relations firm,
180

    
and vice, battle against,
88–89

    
and Viet Minh,
76

    
See also
Diem regime
;
Ngo brothers

Ngo Dinh Kha,
36–37

Ngo Dinh Khoi,
76

Ngo Dinh Le Quyen,
111
,
167
,
220–221

    
and Saigon coup of 1963,
202
,
204
,
207
,
208–209

Ngo Dinh Le Thuy,
48
,
51
,
74
,
82
,
110
,
125
,
167
,
195

    
birth of,
60

    
death of,
220

    
at home of grandparents, in Washington, DC,
188–189
,
214

    
and presidential palace, bombing of,
132

    
and Saigon coup of 1963,
204

    
and US tour,
171
,
183

    
and US tour, and boyfriend,
197–198

    
in Washington, DC,
186–187

Ngo Dinh Nhu

    
assassination attempt against,
131

    
and Buddhist pagodas, raids on,
166
,
198

    
as chief councilor to the president,
129–132

    
childhood of,
36–37

    
and Tran Van Chuong, Madame,
35

    
and coup attempt of 1960,
112
,
113–114

    
description of,
194

    
education of,
36

    
and fake coup scheme,
201–204

    
as a father,
110–111

    
and labor activists, alliances with,
77

    
marital affair of,
107

    
marital troubles of,
106–108
,
109–111

    
marriage of,
37
,
39–40

    
and Ngo Dinh Diem,
77
,
84–85

    
and Ngo Dinh Diem, French hatred of,
81

    
and personalism,
77

    
and Personalist Labor Party,
64
,
77

    
as political advisor to Ngo Dinh Diem,
84–85

    
political power of,
120
,
131

    
popular discontent with,
131

    
and presidential palace, bombing of,
133

    
and presidential palace, move to,
92–93

    
and Republican Youth,
129–130

    
and Saigon, safe passage to,
61

    
secret missions of,
64–65

    
and Service for Political and Social Research of the Presidency,
131

    
and shelter from Viet Minh, in Phat Diem Catholic Church,
60

    
smoking habit of,
111

    
and Spence, Virginia,
82

    
and Strategic Hamlets Program,
130

    
and Tran Thi Le Xuan (later Madame Nhu), introduction to,
35–36

    
and Tran Van Chuong, insults from,
187–188

    
and wife (Madame Nhu), and Pham, John,
72

    
and wife (Madame Nhu), at French embassy dinner,
86

    
and wife (Madame Nhu), dependence on,
163

    
and wife (Madame Nhu), relationship with,
79
,
82
,
133
,
196
,
224

    
and wife (Madame Nhu), reunion with, in Saigon,
60
,
61

    
See also
Ngo brothers

Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame,
40

    
at age 86,
193–194

    
and American embassy in Saigon,
140

    
ancestry of,
9
,
18
,
45
,
154

    
and articles in Times of Vietnam,
142–143

    
and banishment to Belgrade, and travels abroad,
166–168

    
and banishment to Hong Kong,
87–88
,
91–92

    
and Bao Dai,
65–66
,
81

    
and Binh Xuyen attack on presidential palace,
92

    
and breastfeeding children,
59–60

    
and bridge/battleground crossing with infant daughter,
53–54

    
and brother, Tran Van Khiem,
12
,
14
,
96

    
and Buddhist “monks' barbecue” remark,
1
,
139–140
,
145
,
162–163

    
and Buddhist pagodas, raids on,
165–166
,
166–167

    
and Buddhists as Communists,
162
,
216–217

    
and Catholicism,
154

    
and Chau, at Vietnamese embassy, in Washington, D.C.,
189–190

    
CIA friends of,
81–82

    
and Communists,
156

    
and contraception ban,
127

    
and coup attempt of 1960,
111–114

    
criticism of,
2
,
101
,
127
,
138
,
139–140
,
140–141
,
150–151
,
167–168

    
in Dalat,
61–62
,
63–68
,
110

    
and dancing ban,
127–128

    
and daughter Ngo Dinh Le Quyen,
111

    
and daughter Ngo Dinh Le Thuy,
48
,
60
,
171
,
183
,
186–187
,
197–198
,
220

    
and daughters, relationship with,
20

    
death of,
221–222

    
and defense mechanism, blaming others as,
156

    
depression of,
223

    
as deputy in National Assembly,
102–103

    
description of,
2
,
5
,
78

    
diary of,
104–106
,
133
,
223–225

    
and divorce ban,
102–103
,
104
,
108–109

    
as Dragon Lady,
1
,
117
,
148
,
176
,
221

    
and election to National Assembly,
95–96

    
and eyelid cyst,
196
,
198
,
204