well dick burns was the incial leader but he was shot in the head and replaced but peter goesinya.
Ho Chi Minh was president of North Vietnam until his death in '69; he was replaced by a committee. South Vietnam was President Diem until '63; Thieu until the end.
ANSWER Ho Chi Minh was the president of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War his original name was Nguyen Tat. Diem was the president of South Vietnam. Diem was assassinated Nguyen Van Thien was the president of South Vietnam after him.
Thieu was president, until North Vietnam conquered his country (South Vietnam).
After a series of South Vietnamese government leadership changes, following the assassination of President Diem, President Nguyen Van Thieu became the leader of South Vietnam.
Diem was assassinated in '63 (as was Kennedy). Generals took over, until Thieu became pres. in '64.
After the Geneva Conventions in 1954 Vietnam was split into two, North Vietnam (communists) and South Vietnam (democrats). The leader of the North was Ho Chi Minh. The leader of the South was Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem, who was later elected president of South Vietnam; and overthrown by his own general in a coup d'tat in 1963. Nguyen Van Thieu took over, as leader of South Vietnam, for the remainder of the war.
In 1955 Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem became president of South Vietnam.
Diem was assassinated in '63. Thieu died in Boston, MA.
Dr Hans greave everyone looked up to him
Temporary Generals until Thieu in '64.
There is no North and South in Vietnam. Just Vietnam.
In 1975, the South Vietnamese Government was REPLACED by the North Viet Gov't.
The latest president, at the time of South Vietnam's fall was President Nguyen Van Thieu.