Quotes About Diem

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

"Seize the day" drains dignity from "Carpe diem."

Per Diem 10 dites/day Visitors' Card 75

On April 24, the CIA reported that Diem was about to ask that the number of American advisers be greatly reduced. "We don't have a prayer of staying in Vietnam," President Kennedy privately told a friend that evening. "These people hate us. They are going to throw our asses out of there at almost any point. But I can't give up a piece of territory like that to the communists and then get the people to reelect me.

He started the damn thing!" Nixon said in a taped telephone conversation with his spiritual adviser, the Reverend Billy Graham. "He killed Diem!

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.

Carpe Diem, just remember that we're partying on the Titanic.

Not until 1961 did Vice-President Lyndon Johnson deliver his memorable apologia for Diem: 'Shit, man, he's the only boy we got out there.

Diem regarded the Americans as 'great big children – well-intentioned, powerful, with a lot of technical know-how, but not very sophisticated in dealing with him or his race'.

Life is short. Love is vast. Live like there's no tomorrow.