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Photo of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (from left) greet South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem at Washington National Airport.

Reliable reports from the mid-1950s established Diem as a stubborn and nepotistic leader, yet Eisenhower continued to support him. (Photoquest/Getty Images)

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