Biography of nguyen cao ky

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Contributor: Nguyen Cao Ky

Description: This document contains biographical information on Nguyen Cao Ky including his education, family, decorations, and positions. His present positions include Commander of the Viet Nam Air Force and Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of Viet Nam.

Subject(s): elections / public administration / Vietnam (Republic). -- Politics and government / 17th parallel / research

Digital Format: Text/pdf

Original Format: Report

Language: English

Source: Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections Wesley R. Fishel Papers (UA ) Box , Folder 34

Pages: 3

Identifier: UA_pdf

Country: South Vietnam

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Box	F • The colorful life of Nguyen Cao Ky, Over the weekend, one of the most colorful leaders during the Vietnam War passed away in Kuala Lumpur. Nguyen Cao Ky was the Prime Minister of South Vietnam from to The politics of the Vietnam War is still a touchy subject for many, so I won&#;t go into that. But Ky&#;s life, at least to me, seems like something out of a novel. His first wife was a French woman. His second wife was a Vietnamese flight attendant. Ky was known for his flamboyant purple scarves. So when he and wife #2 appeared at state functions together, they&#;d wear his and hers black flight suits, his complete with the requisite purple scarf. He later married for a third time. Ky didn&#;t leave Saigon on the last flight out, but he staged an exit almost as dramatic as this one: Ky, a pilot and former Chief of the South Vietnamese Air Force, flew a helicopter to the USS Blue Ridge and sailed away aboard that ship the day Saigon fell. He settled in California where he ran a liquor store. Which, to me, is the most exciting part of his story. Can you imagine the leader of a country running a liquor store these days? Ky stayed in exile until , when he was the first of the old guard to return to Vietnam. Back in the early 90s, when Hong Kong still had 50,+ Vietname

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The colorful life of Nguyen Cao Ky,

Over the weekend, one of the most colorful leaders during the Vietnam War passed away in Kuala Lumpur. Nguyen Cao Ky was the Prime Minister of South Vietnam from to

The politics of the Vietnam War is still a touchy subject for many, so I won&#;t go into that. But Ky&#;s life, at least to me, seems like something out of a novel.

His first wife was a French woman. His second wife was a Vietnamese flight attendant. Ky was known for his flamboyant purple scarves. So when he and wife #2 appeared at state functions together, they&#;d wear his and hers black flight suits, his complete with the requisite purple scarf. He later married for a third time.

Ky didn&#;t leave Saigon on the last flight out, but he staged an exit almost as dramatic as this one:

Ky, a pilot and former Chief of the South Vietnamese Air Force, flew a helicopter to the USS Blue Ridge and sailed away aboard that ship the day Saigon fell. He settled in California where he ran a liquor store.

Which, to me, is the most exciting part of his story. Can you imagine the leader of a country running a liquor store these days?

Ky stayed in exile until , when he was the first of the old guard to return to Vietnam. Back in the early 90s, when Hong Kong still had 50,+ Vietname