Finding the Dragon Lady (39 page)

Diem regime

    
and Catholic bias,
96
,
122

    
and Communists,
159

    
criticism of,
136–139

    
and flag-flying and bombing incident,
158–160

    
and nepotism,
96
,
112
,
122
,
126

    
overthrow of (
See
Coup attempt of 1960
;
Saigon coup of 1963
)

    
and repression of freedoms,
97
,
122
,
126–127

    
and Tran Van Chuong, criticism of,
166

    
and Tran Van Chuong and Chuong, Madame, and undermining of,
214–215

    
US conspiracy against,
198
,
216–217

    
See also
Ngo Dinh Diem
;
Ngo Dinh Nhu

Dien Bien Phu, battle of,
63

Divorce ban,
102–103
,
104
,
108–109
,
126

Domestic femininity,
26–27
.
See also
Vietnamese tradition

Dong Khanh (emperor of Vietnam),
20

Donovan, Wild Bill,
77
,
80

Dougherty, Dudley,
197

Dragon Lady,
1
,
2
,
117
,
148
,
176
,
185
,
221

Dulles, Allen,
100–101

Dulles, John Foster,
90

Duong Van Minh (aka Big Minh),
200–201
,
208

Durbrow, Elbridge,
126

Education reform,
33

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
80–81
,
147

Fall, Bernard,
142

Family Code,
102–103
,
109
,
126

Famine of 1944 and 1945,
46–47

Faye, Paul “Red,”
2
,
210

Felt, Harry,
202

The Feminine Mystique (Friedan),
150

Feminist movement,
150

Filial piety,
10
.
See also
Confucianism/Confucian tradition

First Indochina War (aka War of Resistance; Guerre d'Indochine),
62–63
,
65–66
,
73–74
,
79
,
83
.
See also
Indochina

Fishel, Wesley,
214–215

Flag-flying and bombing incident,
158–160
,
163–164

Flott, Fred,
198
,
205–206
,
208–209

France,
47–48
,
63
,
73–74
,
79

Freedoms, repression of,
97
,
122
,
126–127

French colonialism,
30–33
,
34

French embassy,
87–88
,
91–92

French Sûreté (secret police),
34–35

French/French colonials,
22
,
37–39
,
76
,
80
,
81
,
82–83

    
Ngo Dinh Diem's battle against,
89–90

    
and recolonization, post-World War II,
47–48
,
63

    
and Vietnamese, prejudice against,
32

Friedan, Betty,
150

Gambetta, Leon,
31

Gandhi, Indira,
150

Geneva Accords,
61
,
73–74
,
79–80
,
94
,
95

Gia Long (emperor),
45

Great Britain,
73–74

Great Depression,
30

Greene, Graham,
81

Gregory, Ann and Gene,
141–143

Hair style,
20
.
See also
Vietnamese tradition

Halberstam, David,
114
,
129
,
135–139
,
140–141
,
142
,
165

    
and Buddhist monk, self-immolation of,
163

    
and Saigon coup of 1963,
205
,
206

Hanoi,
29–30
,
31

Harkins, Paul,
121

Harwood, Paul,
82
,
100–101

Hays, Wayne L.,
173–174

Hermitte, Achille Antoine,
92

Herndon, Ray,
205

Higgins, Marguerite,
131
,
143–146
,
172
,
190
,
206–207

Hilsman, Roger,
12
,
207

Ho Chi Minh,
47
,
60
,
74
,
75–76
,
95
,
121
,
149

Ho Chi Minh Trail,
121

Ho (refugee),
86

Hoang,
48
,
49
,
53
,
56

Hong Kong,
87–88
,
91–92

Horman, Ben,
178

Indochina,
31–32
,
37–39
.
See also
First Indochina War

Iron horse,
123

Japan,
46
,
75
,
76
,
149

Japanese,
34
,
38–39
,
47

    
and Tran Van Chuong and Madame Chuong, collaboration with,
61
,
103

John Birch Society,
197

Johnson, Lady Bird,
117
,
118–119
,
120

Johnson, Lyndon,
124–125
,
218

    
and entourage in South Vietnam,
117
,
118–120

    
and Ngo Dinh Diem,
124
,
131–132

    
and Nhu, Madame, letter from,
174–175

    
and Saigon coup of 1963,
209–210

Karnow, Stanley,
132
,
140–141
,
200–201
,
203

Kennedy, Caroline,
210–211

Kennedy, Ethel,
148

Kennedy, Jacqueline,
5
,
148
,
150–151
,
217–218

Kennedy, John,
119
,
120
,
140
,
147
,
178
,
220–221

    
and assassination conspiracy theories,
197

    
assassination of,
211
,
217

    
and Lansdale, Edward,
81

    
and Luce, Clare Booth,
148

    
and Ngo brothers, assassination of,
210–211

    
and Ngo Dinh Diem,
77

    
and Nhu, Madame,
1–2
,
10
,
100
,
150
,
174–175
,
190
,
191
,
210
,
216

    
and Saigon coup of 1963,
1–2
,
199
,
200
,
207
,
210–211
,
217

    
and South Vietnam, aid to,
121

    
and South Vietnam, US involvement in, criticism of,
136–137

Kennedy, John, Jr.,
210–211

Kennedy administration,
172–173
,
190–191
,
197

Ngo Dinh Kha, Mrs.,
48
,
53
,
56

Khai Dinh (emperor),
65

La Vang, symbolism of American bishop visiting,
154–156
,
156–158

Lam Ngoc (Forest Jewel) villa in Dalat,
66–67

Lansdale, Edward,
80–81
,
84
,
90
,
109–110
,
162

Le Duan,
121

Le Loi (Vietnamese king),
54

Lebedeva, Mrs.,
100

Life magazine,
90
,
144

Lodge, Henry Cabot,
12
,
140
,
161

    
and Saigon coup of 1963,
198–199
,
200
,
202
,
203
,
209
,
210

Luce, Clare Booth,
6
,
146–148
,
151
,
172
,
214
,
216

Luce, Henry,
147
,
172

Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library,
118

Ma Tuyen,
205
,
206

Making of a Quagmire (Halberstam),
136
,
139

Maneli, Mieczyslaw,
201

Mao, Madame,
148

Mao Tse-tung,
147

Marriage,
20
.
See also
Vietnamese tradition

Martial law,
164–165
,
200

Marx, Karl,
75

McCarthy, Eugene,
209

McCone, John A.,
200

McFadden, James,
215

McNamara, Robert,
121
,
162
,
199
,
200
,
201

Mecklin, John,
140

Meet the Press,
183

Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group,
214

Middle-daughter, role of,
27
.
See also
Vietnamese tradition

Miers, Richard,
205

Minutemen,
197

Mission in Torment (Mecklin),
140

Mohr, Charlie,
37
,
104

Moore, Mary Tyler,
171

Morality Laws,
127–129

Mother and newborn,
20
.
See also
Vietnamese tradition

Mother myth,
54
.
See also
Vietnamese tradition

Nam Tran Tran Van Chuong.
See
Tran Van Chuong, Madame

National Assembly,
95–96
,
102–103

National Indignation Convention,
197

National Liberation Front (NLF; Viet Cong),
101
,
121
,
122–124
,
208

National Mothers (Quoc Mau),
54

National Press Club,
190–191

National Review,
147
,
214

Nepotism,
96
,
112
,
122
,
126

New York Herald Tribune,
143
,
190

New York Times,
1
,
2
,
132
,
135
,
140
,
143
,
145
,
176
,
215
,
217
,
221

Newborn and mother,
20
.
See also
Vietnamese tradition

Newsday,
143

Newsweek,
139
,
141

Ngo brothers (Ngo Dinh Diem; Ngo Dinh Nhu)

    
assassination of,
1–2
,
175
,
207
,
209–210
,
210–211
,
213
,
220

    
in Cholon, in hiding,
205–206

    
and Nhu, Madame, dependence on,
163

    
and Saigon coup of 1963,
198–210

    
surrender of,
206