We were afraid that the domino affect would happen, where if one country fell to communism many more would follow. ... "Diem labored under certain disadvantages: he had left Vietnam in August 1950 and had thus played no part in the glorious struggle against the French, living in America for most of that period; he had few political allies and was hesitant to trust anyone except members of his own powerful family; he was aloof and distant, a man with no popular following and neither inclined nor equipped to acquire one; and he was a devout Catholic in a Vietnam that was less than 15 percent Cat...

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