Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - LBJ Goes to War [3/11]' (Suu at 28:15)

(Monday, October 26, 1964; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — The fifth chief of state in South Vietnam’s 10 years as an independent nation was officially installed today. The swearing in of a civilian, Phan Khac Suu, ended almost a year of military rule.