Dương Văn Minh,popularly known as Big Minh,was a South Vietnamese politician and a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and a politician during the presidency of NgôĐình Diệm. In 1963,he became chief of a military junta after leading a coup in which Diệm was assassinated. Minh lasted only three months before being toppled by Nguyễn Khánh,but assumed power again as the fourth and last President of South Vietnam in April 1975,two days before surrendering to North Vietnamese forces. He earned his nickname "Big Minh",because at approximately 1.83 m (6 ft) tall and weighing 90 kg (198 lb),he was much larger than the average Vietnamese.
James Franklin Jeffrey is an American diplomat who served most recently as the United States Special Representative for Syria Engagement and the Special Envoy to the International military intervention against ISIL.
Charles Woodruff Yost was a career U.S. Ambassador who was assigned as his country's representative to the United Nations from 1969 to 1971.
Winston Lord is an American diplomat and leader of non-governmental foreign policy organizations. He has served as Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor (1970–1973),Director of the State Department Policy Planning Staff (1973–1977),President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1977–1985),Ambassador to China (1985–1989),and Assistant Secretary of State (1993–1997).
Ross L. Wilson is an American diplomat who was the chargéd'affaires of the United States to Afghanistan from 2020 to 2021. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey from 2005 to 2008 and the U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2000 to 2003,with the personal rank of Minister-Counselor. He also teaches part-time at Carleton College. Ambassador Wilson is also the director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council.
William Caldwell Harrop is an American diplomat. Harrop served for 39 years as a Foreign Service Officer,with postings as United States ambassador to Guinea,Kenya and the Seychelles,the Congo (Kinshasa),and Israel.
Patrick James Honey was an Irish-born Vietnamese language scholar and historian.
The McNamara–Taylor mission was a 10-day fact-finding expedition to South Vietnam in September 1963 by the Kennedy administration to review progress in the battle by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and its American advisers against the communist insurgency of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. The mission was led by US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and General Maxwell D. Taylor,the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Joseph Abraham Mendenhall was a United States State Department official,known for his advisory work during the Kennedy administration on policy towards Vietnam and Laos. He was best known for his participation in the Krulak Mendenhall mission to South Vietnam in 1963 with General Victor Krulak. Their vastly divergent conclusions led U.S. President John F. Kennedy to ask if they had visited the same country. Mendenhall continued his work in the Indochina region after Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency in wake of Kennedy's assassination.
David B. Dunn is an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Togo from 2005 to 2008. He also served as United States Ambassador to Zambia from 1999 to 2002.
1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War,sometimes called the Second Indochina War or the American War. The North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched the Spring Offensive in March;the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was quickly defeated. The North Vietnamese captured Saigon on April 30,accepting the surrender of South Vietnam. In the final days of the war,the United States,which had supported South Vietnam for many years,carried out an emergency evacuation of its civilian and military personnel and more than 130,000 Vietnamese.
Raymond Arthur Hare was a United States diplomat who was Director General of the United States Foreign Service from 1954 to 1956 and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from 1965 to 1966.
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) is a United States 501(c)3 non-profit organization established in 1986 by retired Foreign Service officers,headquartered at the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Arlington,Virginia. It produces and shares oral histories by American diplomats and facilitates the publication of books about diplomacy by diplomats and others. Its Foreign Affairs Oral History program has recorded over 2,600 oral histories and continues to grow;its book series includes over 100 books. ADST is located on the campus of the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington,Virginia. ADST is the sole American private organization principally committed to the collection of documents about recent U.S. diplomatic history.
Charles Aaron Ray is an American former diplomat who acted as the U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe between 2009 and 2012. He is a former Foreign Service Officer and career member of the Senior Foreign Service who held the position of U.S. Ambassador twice,and retired with the rank of Minister-Counselor. He is also a retired U.S. Army officer who was decorated twice for his actions in combat during the Vietnam War,and later served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs.
The Embassy of the United States in Beijing is the diplomatic mission of the United States in China. It serves as the administrative office of the United States Ambassador to China. The embassy complex is in Chaoyang District,Beijing.
The Embassy of the United States of America to Somalia is a diplomatic mission of the United States in Mogadishu,Somalia from 1960 to 1991. In 1957,the US opened a consulate-general in Mogadishu—the capital of the Trust Territory of Somalia,a UN trusteeship under Italian administration. The consulate was upgraded to embassy status in July 1960,when the US recognized Somalia's independence and appointed an ambassador. The embassy served to counter Soviet influence during the Cold War and also served as a base for the United States Agency for International Development,which had a large presence in the country. In 1989,the embassy moved from a dilapidated building in central Mogadishu to a new compound on the outskirts of the city.
Theodore George Osius III is an American diplomat and the former United States Ambassador to Vietnam.
James Richard Bullington is an American retired diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Burundi.
Roger Alan McGuire was the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Guinea-Bissau from October 14,1992 to August 28,1995. He was appointed to the post by President George H. W. Bush on June 15,1992.
Frances Dee Cook was a career Foreign Service Officer who was the US Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi from 1980–1983,Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon,1989–1993 and she was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman on December 28,1995.
