 Complete the following phrase:  In 1952, Thái  then, a graduate student at Cornell  first met Diệm as a political exile in Lakewood, New Jersey and helped him make contacts with American politicians and academics. Thái returned to Saigon in 1954 and became one of the closest aides to President Diệm. In late 1961, he resigned as Director General of the national news agency, Vietnam Press, to accept the Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard 19621963. In 1962, Thái published Is South Vietnam Viable?, exposing the corruption of the Ngo Family dictatorship and accurately predicting the imminent 