1965 Air Vice-Marshal
Nguyen Cao Ky assumes office as premier of South Vietnam.
Ford now manages a family-owned flour milling business in Okeene, Oklahoma, where he has a first-name acquaintance with its several hundred residents -- and sometimes, after church or some other community function, he'll tell about flying Vietnamese Premier
Nguyen Cao Ky on a harrowing mission and being told by Ky that "you are a number one American cowboy."
General Giap beats his former enemies such as Republic of Vietnam Major General (Airforce)
Nguyen Cao Ky who died aged 80 in July 2011 and the more talented (Four-Star) General Cao Van Vien who died in 2008 aged 86.
Even when a pair of those generals (Nguyen Van Thieu and
Nguyen Cao Ky) finally brought a modicum of stability, Saigon could still not compete militarily or administratively in the countryside.
The discussion of the Diem regime's approach to political indoctrination and conscription is excellent; by contrast, neither
Nguyen Cao Ky nor Nguyen Van Thieu is mentioned by name.
Pham Duy's return is currently being widely compared to the "returns-for-good" of two other long term exiles:
Nguyen Cao Ky and Thich Nhat Hanh.
Then there was Premier
Nguyen Cao Ky, who in 1966 approved a series of meaningful policies for the highlanders.
Nguyen Cao Ky can again be a leader of sorts, paving the way for Vietnamese refugees to make peace with their past.
After the ceremonial post of chief of state, Thieu was elected president in September 1967 after pulling off a stunning switch with his rival, Prime Minister
Nguyen Cao Ky, who had previously wielded the most influence in the South Vietnamese military regime.
In such a war, survival, not glory, becomes your only goal, so you would "hunker down inside your flak jacket and helmet and hope the big stuff landed on somebody else's head." In the meantime, a larger consciousness about the war emerged out of Ehrhart's feelings of resentment toward corrupt South Vietnamese officials like Premier
Nguyen Cao Ky, "who wore tailored purple flight suits and admired Adolf Hitler."
Johnson and Premier
Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam.
On the contrary, the Reagans will presumably be permitted to finish out their days under Western skies, horseback riding around some Southern Califirnia El Rancho for Dudes and Dictators, in the pleasant company of the Marcos family, the Duvaliers, Nixon, Haldemann, Mike Deaver and his family, with perhaps Poindexter and Pinochet or even
Nguyen Cao Ky still hanging around.