[SunkenCiv]

There was no air support, and the whole works had been leaked in the press. Amateur hour at the White House is nothing new.

[MUDDOG]

Another absolutely fatal change was the Kennedy administration's moving the landing site from the Cuban town of Trinidad to the Bay of Pigs.

A twist to the story is, JFK got word in 1960 that the US was secretly planning a Cuban landing. Nixon, being a member of the administration, couldn't talk about it.

So in the presidential debates, Kennedy kept hammering at the Eisenhower administration's "weak" Cuban policy, knowing that Nixon could not answer back, for fear of getting the wind up in Cuba.