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Phillips -- II -- 4
[Ngo Dinh] Diem on down.
I saw Diem, I saw Nguyen Dinh Thuan, I saw
everybody, and [Ngo Dinh] Nhu.
I talked about a kind of a teamwork
situation in which we would create a provincial coordinating
- and problems along the line, and
there really wasn't any stability in the government from then until Nguyen Van Thieu and
General [Nguyen Cao] Ky came into the government.
But these three generals had a great opportunity, and they fluffed it. Everybody's
got
- of Vietnam.
Big Minh and I vJere very close.
I asked him one time, "Hhat was your relation with Vice President
[Nguyen Ngoc] Tho?'1
"Where?'1
He said, "We were in prison together."
He said,,"Right here.
was terrible.
I said,
The French had us in prison
- sects; Foreign Legion; French evacuation; President Diem; Nguyen Van Thieu; Nguyen Cao Ky; land reform; relocation; highlands; borders with Cambodia and Laos; hot pursuit; Montagnards; Vietnamese officers and military organizations; Civil Guard; Self
- “pacification”; comparison of Ky and Thieu; differentiating between ambassadors in Vietnam; working with General William Westmoreland; Bill Moyers; problems with being the only full-time high-ranking government official workingon the Vietnam situation; who
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Narrator: Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Biographical information: Social work adminstr.; b. Lincoln Ridge, Ky., July 31, 1921; B.S., Ky.
State Coll., 1941; student Mass. Inst. Tech., 1942
- there, was pretty sold on it.
So was 1.
I being sold on it in
theory--I had never been in Vietnam, but it sounded good to me--would
have liked to have seen some attempt at it.
Freeman said that Ky had told him he'd like to put into effect the
plan of land reform