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  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 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
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 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