USS Arizona salvaged artifacts are located in Phoenix. One of two salvaged bells of USS "Arizona" is on display in the University of Arizona Student Union Memorial Center in Tucson, and Glendale Veteran's Memorial in the city of Glendale, Arizona is constructed using material from the wreck of the battleship. Also included in this list of salvaged artifacts is a piece of steel salvaged from USS "Arizona" on display at the USS "South Dakota" Memorial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. was a named after Arizona, the 48th state which was admitted to the Union in 1912. She was built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
Reaction to the 1963 South Vietnamese coup denied that the Americans had a "decisive influence" and insisted that it was a "South Vietnamese affair" but he realized that "our press problem is likely to be pinpointed on US involvement". The State Department press officer followed the government line, stating "I can categorically state that the US government was not involved in any way. A year afterward, some administration officials admitted the nature of US involvement. John Mecklin claimed that the White House put "direct, relentless, table-hammering pressure on Diem such as the United States had seldom before attempted with a sovereign, friendly government". Trueheart went on to