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Nguyen Khanh

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South Vietnamese general and politician (1927-2013)

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  • Dynamics of the McDonnell Douglas large scale dynamic rig and dynamic calibration of the rotor balance
  • Đỏ̂i mới bước phát triẻ̂n tá̂t yé̂u đi lên chủ nghĩa xã hội ở Việt Nam
  • Một vài vá̂n đè̂ vè̂ phương thức lãnh đạo của Đảng trong giai đoạn mới của cách mạng
  • Dynamics of the McDonnell Douglas large scale dynamic rig and dynamic calibration of the rotor balance
  • Đỏ̂i mới bước phát triẻ̂n tá̂t yé̂u đi lên chủ nghĩa xã hội ở Việt Nam

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Quotes

  • I think uh...we lost everyday Vietnamese life in fighting the Communists, you know, and and no progress, we have to do something else, you can, we cannot have a more of the same, you know, every, every day, so we, we must change, yes.
  • The French Colonial, you know...did not export too much their ideal of d—of democracy outside of the French frontier. Now, with the American people, you export too much your democracy and your...freedom, you know, all that, your way of life and you want to impose that uh in the country like Vietnam, it doesn — it doesn’t, it cannot work. But, in some way, we better adapt and not adopt what you have.
  • Yeah, we, we uh, we had a march North, movement at that time, in July '64. I prepare at that time the psychology of the South Vietnamese people that maybe we need to go north to answer to the aggression from North Vietnam. You, you cannot defend yourself always to have a defensive plan, you know. Uh...what the...the...one of the uh military principle is you better defend yourself by having an offensive plan.
  • Ambassador Taylor and, and, and, and me, and I, we had a very bad moment together at that day in the general staff. Ambassador want to see me uh because he uh made what we called a young turk at that time, a young general officer, namely Nguyen Cao Ky, and Nguyen Van Thieu, and other general. And uh... to kind of to insult them uh for, you know, being changing what we call the civilian government at that time.
  • The council uh, forced me to leave the, the country. That was officially, but, in fact, you know, it's 'n...uh...there are many books writing of that, that, that uh incident and the American official in Saigon are very pleased at that time to see me uh out of the country.
  • I feel very, very badly and uh I left Saigon...with some of my...soil of the you know Vietnam you know in my hand...I left uh seeing the soldier that I always command, you know, for two decades. Uh...behind. I feel that I missed to bring peace to my people. And I feel that uh maybe the only time that we can have that peace, you know, and have dignity of South Vietnam, the sovereignty, respected by every people and I feel very badly, of course.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Vietnam
Place of birth
Trà Vinh
Place of death
San Jose
Occupation
politician
Political party
independent politician
Languages spoken
Vietnamese
Military rank
general
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Nguyễn Khánh 1964.jpg
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date of birth
1927-11-08
date of death
2013-01-11
cause of death
diabetes
manner of death
natural causes
Commons category
Nguyễn Khánh
name in native language
Nguyễn Khánh
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