sentences:  Đính's brash behavior caused public relations problems for the junta.In interviews with the "Washington Post" and "The New York Times", he claimed that he took a leading role in the coup because "we would have lost the war under Diệm" and saying that he participated "not for personal ambition, but for the population, the people and to get rid of Nhu".He claimed to have been the "specialist ... [who] gave the orders in only thirty minutes", keeping the plans "all in his head".