Diem and Nhu became a major liability for the Kennedy Administration when their national popularity plummeted as a result of numerous humanitarian violations. Diem ran his country as a brutal dictatorship alongside his powerful brother Nhu, who was even more ruthless than him. America was put into a very serious diplomatic situation by the Southern Vietnamese leaders and their gruesome regime.
By the time Kennedy took office in 1961, the situation in South Vietnam had seriously deteriorated. An unsucsessful military coup of November 11, 1960 had been followed by an increase in repressive measures and killings of their own citizens by Diem an
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