Nông Thị Xuân

Nông Thị Xuân (1932–1957) was a mistress of president Ho Chi Minh, who mothered a child with Hồ and died in a vehicle accident shortly after. Xuân was an ethnic Tày from Cao Bằng Province.

Vũ Kỳ, Ho Chi Minh's secretary (who was also mentioned as having a significant role in the story), in an interview in 2004 denied the story by saying that Vũ Thư Hiên's book was based on some unfounded rumors to fictionalize this story.

Relationship According to Vũ Thư Hiên in the book Đêm giữa ban ngày (Night in Broad Daylight), Xuân was chosen in 1955 to look after the health of uncle Hồ. Xuân and her sister named Vàng stayed at 66 Hàng Bông Thợ Nhuộm street, next to Quang Trung street. Normally, Minister of Security Trần Quốc Hoàn himself took Xuân to meet Hồ, and then drove her back. and of a "celibate married only to the cause of revolution".

Death According to Vũ Thư Hiên In 1957, Nông Thị Xuân was killed a southern Chinese midwife, and formerly to Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, a Vietnamese communist revolutionary from Hồ's home province of Nghệ An.

Destiny of Nguyễn Tất Trung According to Bùi Tín, former People's Army of Vietnam Colonel and Vice Chief Editor of the People's Daily, after his mother died, Nguyễn Tất Trung was brought home by Nguyễn Lương Bằng, who late became Vice President of Vietnam, to raise for few months in 1957, and then gave him to general Chu Văn Tấn in Thái Nguyên to look after for some years. After that, Trung was brought to the orphanage of Hội phụ nữ cứu quốc trung ương (Women League for National Salvation (WLNS)), and then the Nguyễn Văn Trỗi school for children of soldiers killed in action. After Hồ Chí Minh died, Vũ Kỳ, Hồ's long time secretary (from 1948), brought Trung home to live with his family and sent him to the Chu Văn An school near West Lake together with his 2 sons, Vũ Quang and Vũ Vinh, who were about Trung's age. Trung died on June 16, 2026.