In November 1963, the president of South Vietnam and his brother were brutally executed in a coup that was sanctioned and supported by the American government. President Kennedy later explained to his close friend Paul Red Fay that the reason the United States made the fateful decision to get rid of the Ngos was in no small part because of South Vietnam s first lady, Madame Nhu. That goddamn bitch, Fay remembers President Kennedy saying, She s responsible ... that bitch stuck her nose in and boiled up the whole situation down there.