- Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: GENERAL KHANH VOTED PRESIDENT.
- Date: 18th August 1964
- Summary: 1. MLV PAN FOUR GENERALS AT TABLE; (LEFT TO RIGHT:) GEN. NGUYEN CAO KY; LT.GEN. TRAN THIEN KHIEM, DEFENCE MINISTER; GEN. NGUYEN KHANH; AND NGUYEN VAN THIEU, DEPUTY MINISTER OF DEFENCE. 0.15 2. MV PHOTOGRAPHERS. 0.17 3. MV COLLECTING BALLOT PAPERS. 0.21 4. MV COUNTING BALLOT PAPERS. 0.25 5. MV SCOREBOARD. 0.30 6. MLV GEN. NGUYEN VAN THIEU ANNOUNCES RESULTS. 0.34 7. MV KHANH BEING APPLAUDED. 0.39 8. CU KHANH. 0.41 9. MV PHOTOGRAPHERS. 0.44 10. CU KHANH TAKES OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. 0.54 11. CU OTHER GENERALS GREET KHANH. 1.00 12. MV PAN OTHER GENERALS WITH KHANH. 1.07 Initials JT/V/MR/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 2nd September 1964 13:00
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- Location: SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM
- Country: Vietnam
- Reuters ID: LVACCWDPTU3GYZXJ85DNH05EHF17
- Story Text: A PROMOTION FOR THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE PRIME MINISTER, MAJOR-GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH. HIS MILITARY COUNCIL ON SUNDAY VOTED TO MAKE HIM PRESIDENT WITH NEAR DICTATORIAL POWERS.
HE BECOMES THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF SOUTH VIETNAM SINCE NGO DINH DIEM WAS OVERTHROWN AND KILLED IN A COUP NEARLY TEN MONTHS AGO. GENERAL KHANH CAME TO POWER IN ANOTHER COUP -- THIS TIME BLOODLESS -- THREE MONTHS LATER.
IN THE VOTE, HE OBTAINED 50 OUT OF THE 58 VOTES. HIS FIRST TASK, HE SAID, WOULD BE TO FORM A WAR CABINET TO DIRECT THE FIGHT AGAINST THE VIETCONG. ITS MEMBERS WOULD BE ANNOUNCED LATER THIS WEEK.
PUBLIC REACTION TO GEN. KHANH'S ELECTION APPEARS TO BE GENERALLY UNFAVOURABLE. STUDENTS ARE REPORTED TO BE PLANNING BIG DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE APPOINTMENT AND OTHER RECENT MEASURES, INCLUDING THE CURRENT STATE OF EMERGENCY.
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