Nguyen Ngoc Tho/Definition

Under Ngo Dinh Diem and for a time after his overthrow, Vice-President of the Republic of Vietna (South Vietnam). Of the Buddhist majority rather than Diem's Catholic minority, while he did not command major personal forces, he had important roles in brokering arrangements with the politically powerful Buddhists, including after the Vietnam War, Buddhist crisis and military coup of 1963.