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Thieu was our boy. >> but absolute power corrupts, and thieu becomes a dictator. >> a catholic presence imposing itself on a buddhist majority, and now they're going after the buddhists. >> soldiers and police broke up the demonstrations and killed nine persons. >> a debate broke out in the american government over whether we should continue to support diem or not. >> by the summer of 1963, there had been discussions in the cia the in the pentagon about toppling the regime. >> mr. president, has our government in any way been tardy in recognizing the nature of the diem government? >> we are fa...

Accompanying south vietnamese forces into the field. so by this point, their role had gone beyond simply advising. >> we have learned a bitter lesson. the army of south vietnam cannot cope with the committed gorilla enemy. it is trained for conventional war american style. >> there is growing uncertainty about whether the advisory effort is really working. >> then in the midst there is a what's called a buddhist crisis. >> the war in vietnam has literally become a fight on two fronts. on one hand, the they face the vietcong communists and on the other hand a revolt of the majority, a fight whi...

By a western educated catholic named thieu. thieu was our boy. >> but massive power corrupts, and thieu becomes a dictator. >> a catholic presence imposing itself on a buddhist majority, and now they're going after the buddhists. >> soldiers and police broke up the demonstrations and killed nine persons. >> a debate broke out in the american government over whether we should continue to support thieu or not. >> by the summer of 1963, there had been discussions in the cia the in the pentagon about toppling the regime.

Accompanying south vietnamese forces into the field. so by this point, their role had gone beyond simply advising. >> we have learned a bitter lesson. the army of south vietnam cannot cope with the committed gorilla enemy. it is trained for conventional war american style. >> there is growing uncertainty about whether the advisory effort is really working. >> then in the midst there is a what's called a buddhist crisis. >> the war in vietnam has literally become a fight on two fronts. on one hand, the they face the vietcong communists and on the other hand a revolt of the majority, a fight whi...

Of the majority, a fight which has been joined by thousands of students. >> the country's buddhist majority sees the president as a tyrant. >> we had established a government in south vietnam lead by a western educated catholic named thieu. thieu was our boy. >> but massive power corrupts, and thieu becomes a dictator. >> a catholic presence imposing itself on a buddhist majority, and now they're going after the buddhists. >> soldiers and police broke up the demonstrations and killed nine persons. >> a debate broke out in the american government over whether we should continue to support thieu...