Bui Diem was born in 1923 in Japan. He was South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. He is the nephew of ex Prime Minister of Emperor Bảo Đại, Trần Trọng Kim. He is also the famous founder of "Saigon Post" in Vietnam, Japan. In 1975, Saigon had a Fall Down due to which he movied to United States and settled in Rockville, Maryland.

He was a famous scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and at the American Enterprise Institute, as well as a research professor at George Mason University. He is well known to be the writer of the book , "In the Jaws of History".

Why is he famous

He is famous to have played a key role in the last desperate attempt to secure US $700 million in military aid to defend South Vietnam against the North in 1975.

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	Vietnamese politicians
	Living people
	American people of Vietnamese descent
	Vietnamese immigrants to the United States
	George Mason University faculty
	Ambassadors to the United States
	People of the First Indochina War
	Vietnamese exiles

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Date Added: 12 June '09

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