Nguyen Cao Ky and his beautiful wife Mai. Ky served as the chief of the Vietnam Air Force in the 1960's before leading the nation as the Prime Minister of South Vietnam from 1965 to 1967 following a military junta. Then, until his retirement from politics in 1971, he served as Vice President to bitter rival General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. In 1975, Kỳ left Vietnam aboard the USS Blue Ridge and fled to the United States and settled in Westminster, California, where he ran a liquor store. He died in 1980 in Malaysia. Mai was an Air Vietnam stewardess before she married Ky.