Question: During Diem's presidency, what was madame Nhu a commander of?
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Ngô Đình Lệ Thủy (1945-1967) was the daughter of South Vietnam’s First lady Madame Nhu and Ngo Dinh Nhu, the National Secret Police Chief. 
The Krulak Mendenhall mission was a fact-finding expedition dispatched by the Kennedy administration to South Vietnam in early September 1963.
The stated purpose of the expedition was to investigate the progress of the war by the South Vietnamese regime and their US military advisers against the Viet Cong insurgency.
The mission was led by Victor Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall.
Krulak was a Major General in the United States Marine Corps, while Mendenhall was a senior Foreign Service Officer experienced in dealing with Vietnamese affairs.
The four-day whirlwind trip was launched on September 6, 1963, the same day as a National Security Council (NSC) meeting, and came in the wake of increasingly strained relations between the United States and South Vietnam.
Civil unrest gripped South Vietnam as Buddhist demonstrations against the religious discrimination of President Ngo Dinh Diem's Catholic regime escalated.
Following the raids on Buddhist pagodas on August 21 that left a death toll ranging up to a few hundred, the US authorized investigations into a possible coup through a cable to US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr..
In their submissions to the NSC, Krulak presented an extremely optimistic report on the progress of the war, while Mendenhall presented an extremely bleak picture of military failure and public discontent.
Krulak disregarded the effects of popular support for the Viet Cong.
The general felt that the Vietnamese soldiers' efforts in the field would not be affected by the public's unease with Diem's policies.
Mendenhall focused on gauging the sentiment of urban-based Vietnamese and concluded that Diem's policies increased the possibility of religious civil war.
Mendenhall said that Diem's policies were causing the South Vietnamese to believe that life under the Viet Cong would improve the quality of their lives.
The divergent reports led US President John F. Kennedy to famously ask his two advisers: The inconclusive report was the subject of bitter and personal debate among Kennedy's senior advisers.
Various courses of action towards Vietnam were discussed, such as fostering a regime change or taking a series of selective measures designed to cripple the influence of Ngo Dinh Nhu, Diem's brother and chief political adviser.
Nhu and his wife Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu were seen as the major causes of the political problems in South Vietnam.
The inconclusive result of Krulak and Mendenhall's expedition resulted in a follow-up mission, the McNamara Taylor mission. 
During her brother-in-law's presidency, Madame Nhu pushed for the passing of "morality laws" outlawing abortion, adultery, divorce, contraceptives, dance halls, beauty pageants, boxing matches, and animal fighting, and closed down the brothels and opium dens.
She was widely mocked by the public who regarded her as a hypocrite, with older Vietnamese believing her "décolleté" gowns to be sexually suggestive, in addition to widespread rumors of her own infidelity.
Her family received further scorn as her sister, Trần Lệ Chi, who was married to Nguyển Hữu Châu had a French lover named Etienne Oggeri, and critics alleged that Madame Nhu introduced the laws so that her sister's husband could not get a divorce.
Since he was extremely wealthy, the Ngô family would have lost highly valuable assets.
In addition, her brother, Khiêm, used his government connections to bilk rich entrepreneurs.
Diệm had stated before becoming President, "The history of China bears witness to the grave crises brought on by the empresses and their relatives.
"Madame Nhu exerted influence with her fiery attitude, often abusing Diệm and Nhu, who bowed to her angry tirades.
Madame Nhu was frequently mocked by the media for her ostentatious flaunting of power, and was sometimes called the "Dragon Lady", as well as "Lucretia Borgia" and "Queen Bee".
She once stated "Power is wonderful.
Total power is totally wonderful."
She once told a group of American congressmen, "I'm not exactly afraid of death.
I love power and in the next life I have a chance to be even more powerful than I am."
U.S. Defense Secretary McNamara noted that "I saw Madame Nhu as bright, forceful, and beautiful, but also diabolical and scheming—a true sorceress."
She had a message to Diệm's opponents: "We will track down, neutralize and extirpate all these scabby sheep."
French journalist François Sully wrote that Madame Nhu was "conceited, and obsessed with a drive for power that far surpasses that of even her husband ...
It is no exaggeration to say that Madame Nhu is the most detested personality in South Vietnam."
Sully was promptly expelled from Vietnam by the Ngô family.
Madame Nhu claimed that she and her husband were responsible for Diệm's triumph over the Bình Xuyên in the Battle for Saigon in 1954.
She claimed it was the family's destiny to save South Vietnam.
Following the collapse of the coup, her influence in the family began to rise.
As her husband's influence grew, as did her own vicariously, so did American distaste for them.
Wesley Fishel, the anti-Communist academic from Michigan State University who had led an advisory group that helped to train Vietnamese public servants and who had lobbied American politicians in the 1950s to support Diệm's bid for power, resigned along with his staff.
Fishel called Madame Nhu "Brilliant, vivacious, bitchy and brutal in her Borgia-like fashion", claiming that she and her husband were evil influences corrupting the regime.
She often exerted her influence through bouts of shouting.
Sometimes when she disagreed with a proposal or decision that had been made inside the palace by some ministers or other senior public servants, she would verbally abuse them and intimidate them into adopting her preferred stance.
On 27 February 1962, two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots, Nguyễn Văn Cử and Phạm Phú Quốc, bombed the Independence Palace, the official residence of the Ngô family, with the aim of assassinating them.
One bomb landed in a room where Diệm was reading, but failed to detonate.
The family escaped to the cellar unhurt, except for Madame Nhu, who sustained an arm fracture while running for cover.
Diệm reacted to the bombing by cracking down on political dissidents and further tightening control of the press.
Madame Nhu added, "ou open a window to let in light and air, not bullets.
We want freedom, but we don't want to be exploited by it."
In a radio interview in late-1962, she mockingly remarked that American journalists were "intoxicated with communism.
"The following year she instructed her Women's Solidarity Movement to oppose American attempts "to make lackeys of Vietnamese and to seduce Vietnamese women into decadent paths."
As relations became strained, she publicly accused the Americans of having supported the 1960 coup. 
Madame Nhu kept a personal diary during her position as First Lady of South Vietnam.
Her diary is dated from 1959 through to 1963 and it is in the possession of United States Army Captain James Văn Thạch.
The diary is in the initial steps of being authenticated by the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, at Stanford University.
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From 1954 to 1975, Vietnam was split into North and South Vietnam.
In a country where surveys of the religious composition estimated the Buddhist majority to be approximately 50 to 70 percent, President Ngo Dinh Diem's policies generated claims of religious bias.
As a member of the Catholic Vietnamese minority, he pursued pro-Catholic policies that antagonized many Buddhists.
In May 1963, in the central city of Huế, where Diem's elder brother Ngo Dinh Thuc was the archbishop, Buddhists were prohibited from displaying Buddhist flags during Vesak celebrations.
A few days earlier, Catholics were allowed to fly religious flags at a celebration in honour of Thuc.
This led to a protest against the government, which was suppressed by Diem's forces, killing nine civilians.
This led to a mass campaign against Diem's government during the Buddhist crisis.
Notably, Thich Quang Duc self-immolated and later Diem's younger brother Ngo Dinh Nhu ordered the special forces to raid pagodas across the country, killing an estimated hundreds.
After this, the US government withdrew support and Diem and his family were deposed and killed.
Under Communist rule, many religious practices in Vietnam including Buddhism were suppressed.
However a government sanctioned and approved United Buddhist Church was created in the North.
In the South, The Unified Buddhist Church was created and opposed the communist government.
Since Đổi Mới (1986) many reforms have allowed Buddhism to be practiced further.
It was not until 2007 that Pure Land Buddhism, the most widespread type of Buddhism practiced in Vietnam, was officially recognized as a religion by the government.
Today, Buddhists are located almost everywhere in Vietnam, from North to South.
Buddhism is the single largest religion in Vietnam, with between 9% to 16% of the population identifying themselves as Buddhist.