Nguyen Van Thieu

President Nguyen Van Thieu was the last elected President of South Vietnam, resigning during the collapse of the country and fleeing into exile several days before the conquest of the capital by communist forces at the end of the Vietnam War.

His legacy is controversial due to several strategic mistakes he made which aided in the collapse of his forces. However, as he and many have said in his defense, the collapse was an inevitable outcome of the ceasing of American support due to the liberalization occuring at the time which prevented American enforcement of the original treaty with North Vietnam.

He died in exile in the United States of America at his home there after a period of asylum in the Republic of China on Taiwan.