Live Breaking News & Updates on President Ngo Dinh Diem

Stay updated with breaking news from President ngo dinh diem. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Hedrick Smith: Neil Sheehan forced an American reckoning


Hedrick Smith: Neil Sheehan forced an American reckoning
Reporter who died last week had a profound moral fervor about the people’s right to know the truth.
(Brendan Hoffman for the New York Times)
Author Neil Sheehan poses for a portrait in his home office on Thursday, September 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
By Hedrick Smith | For The New York Times
  | Jan. 12, 2021, 2:14 p.m.
Washington “It looks like a coup,” Neil Sheehan said. “I’ll call Mordecai. He’ll know whose tanks those are.”
It was Saigon, January 1964. I had just shared with Neil the news that I had seen tanks in the streets surrounding the home of Gen. Duong Van Minh, then the South Vietnamese leader. It was normal for tanks to be on guard to protect Big Minh, as he was known, but what caught my eye was that the tanks’ guns were pointed at the house, not away from it, menacing Minh instead of protecting him. It struck me that someone might be putting the commander in ch ....

Mekong Delta , Vietnam General , Republic Of , United States , New York , Chicago Hall , White House , District Of Columbia , H Chíinh , North Vietnam , Duong Van Minh , Lyndon Johnson , Nguyen Khanh , Ngo Dinh Diem , Conein Mordecai , John Le Carr , William Westmoreland , Neil Sheehan , Richard Nixon , Lucien Conein , David Halberstam , Ngo Dinh Nhu , United Press International , Us Embassy , Vietnamese Army , Associated Press ,

The True Story Behind The Pentagon Papers


The True Story Behind The Pentagon Papers
Shutterstock
By Richard Milner/Jan. 8, 2021 9:04 am EDT
A researcher blows the whistle on decades worth of covert U.S. government dealings to sow warfare in Indochina (the Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos peninsula) by passing along classified, photocopied documents to a 
New York Times journalist. That journalist releases his informant s story without consent a fact revealed only as recently as January 7, 2021, after the journalist passed away and when President Nixon illegally retaliates, leads to one of the biggest scandals in modern presidential history: Watergate, as well as Nixon s impeachment.
This is the story of the Pentagon Papers in a nutshell, per History, dramatized as recently as 2017 in Stephen Spielberg s stellar tour de force  ....

New York , United States , Cambodia General , Ho Chi Minh City , H Chíinh , Republic Of , South Vietnam , Vietnam General , North Vietnam , Socialist Republic Of Vietnam , Lyndonb Johnson , Johnn Mitchell , Ngo Dinh Diem , Stephen Spielberg , Roberts Mcnamara , Williamh Rehnquist , Neil Sheehan , Chi Minh , Daniel Ellsberg , Ho Chi Minh , Byrichard Milner Jan , Neilson Barnard Getty , National Archives Getty Images , Lady Justice Supreme Court , Department Of Defense , Council On Foreign Relations ,