The article was promoted by Karanacs 19:35, 28 October 2010 [1].
December 1964 South Vietnamese coup (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
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This was one of half a dozen changes/rearrangements of government in South Vietnam in 1964. At the urging of the US, an appointed civilian pseudolegislature was appointed to make things look civilian-like. The junta wanted to introduce a retirement age to remove some old rival generals, but the High National Council (mockingly the "High National Museum" as they were mostly old men) refused. So the young generals shut down the HNC. This led to a lot of angry shouting by the US Ambassador and Gen Maxwell Taylor, and then both Taylor and General Nguyen Khanh ended up shouting at each other to leave the country, threatening to end relations etc and a media circus started. A few days later the Vietcong bombed a US officer dormitory. The US wanted to retaliate but then thought maybe Khanh bombed them, so they got confused.... YellowMonkey (new photo poll) 01:38, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sources comment: All sources look good, no outstanding issues. Brianboulton (talk) 17:58, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comments: Another very informative, interesting article. Looks good, just a few minor points.