Ngo Dinh Diem/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Ngo Dinh Diem.

President of the Republic of Vietnam from shortly after its creation, to his overthrow and death in the Vietnam War, Buddhist crisis and military coup of 1963. He was of the Catholic minority, ascetic and autocratic, and strongly anti-Communist