Vietnam: Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam 1967-1975 greets Rear Admiral Tran Van Quoc of the Republic of Vietnam Navy (1969)

Nguyen Van Thieu was a general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) who went on to become the President of South Vietnam (1965–75), first as the head of a military junta and then after winning a fraudulent election. He established an authoritarian and corrupt rule over South Vietnam until resigning and fleeing the nation a few days before the fall of Saigon and the ultimate communist victory.

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