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Nguyen Van Thieu

Nguyen Van Thieu
Rising through the ranks of the South Vietnamese army, Nguyen Van Thieu participated in the 1963 military coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Vietnam. From 1967 to 1975 he was strongman president of the country.
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