For the record, Cuban-Americans are not among JFK fans, primarily because of the Bay of Pigs.
Posted on 11/25/2017 10:56:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
We remember the 54th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination this week.
There is something about President Kennedy's legacy, as Alan Brinkley wrote a few years ago:
President Kennedy spent less than three years in the White House. His first year was a disaster, as he himself acknowledged. The Bay of Pigs invasion of Communist Cuba was only the first in a series of failed efforts to undo Fidel Castro’s regime. His 1961 summit meeting in Vienna with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was a humiliating experience. Most of his legislative proposals died on Capitol Hill.
Yet he was also responsible for some extraordinary accomplishments. The most important, and most famous, was his adept management of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, widely considered the most perilous moment since World War II. Most of his military advisers – and they were not alone – believed the United States should bomb the missile pads that the Soviet Union was stationing in Cuba. Kennedy, aware of the danger of escalating the crisis, instead ordered a blockade of Soviet ships. In the end, a peaceful agreement was reached. Afterward, both Kennedy and Khrushchev began to soften the relationship between Washington and Moscow.
He is extremely popular overseas, but the reasons are vague. No one can give you a specific reason or accomplishment.
They love him in Latin America, perhaps for the Peace Corps.
His impact in U.S. politics is huge, and I would recommend Dr. Sabato's book, The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy. Every modern Democrat embraces Kennedy.
For the record, Cuban-Americans are not among JFK fans, primarily because of the Bay of Pigs.
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Had they been informed, I do not doubt that they would have refused to go ahead with the invasion.
I have personally spoken to men who were in the Navy around Cuba at the time. They have told me how the men were crying on the radio for help, begging the Americans to come help them the way they had been promised we would, but they had orders from the President to do nothing.
They said it was terrible to listen to the Cubans begging, all the while knowing that our government had deliberately left them out there to twist in the wind.
It was just wrong what we did to those men. I say "we", I mean what Kennedy did to those men.
If Kennedy was playing politics with these events, he was even stupider than I thought he was.
How about a second look at his inveterate, depraved rutting while claiming to be a Christian?
Actually he promised NOT to provide air cover. The CIA thought they could force him to buy creating a mess on the ground. Then it would be a full on US invasion.
He didn’t let them bully him.
I’ll grant him that!
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Ugly deeply slanted article!
Without Kennedy’s deep tax cuts, we never would have gotten out of the “Great Depression,” which was still lingering when he took office.
He paid with his life for resisting the NWO’s monetary manipulation.
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Enjoy your blissful ignorance.
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Some folks think that if Kennedy were alive today he would be a Republican.
A fine piece of democrat-press mythology.
A myth that has grown over the years but one that the real man could never live up to.
A mediocre presidency at best.
I doubt he would be a republican. More likely an Clinton-Obama democrat.
True or not, the American people “believe” JFK was great, and nothing will change their collective minds. Not tapes or photos, really nothing can change their opinions.
Bay of Pigs, he left brave men to die, their families arrested. Then the death of MM, the BBC covered it pretty good.
Most of our leaders should be in prison, very few aren’t corrupt to the core.
The CIA -cynically- put them on the beach to die. They thought they could force JFK to involve US forces though he clearly told them he would not before it began. The CIA decided it set national policy.
They found out different.
Then they murdered him over it.
Kennedy’s biggest MISTAKE was picking LBJ. The country has never recovered from the presidency of LBJ.
Presidents in general do not control CIA ops.
Bay of Pigs was a loose cannon operation by CIA trying to save face, and they blew it.
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Have to agree with that one.
I wouldn’t believe anything the CIA said, nothing.
Any Freeper could produce a valid BC and surpass the good done by the Kenyan maggot.
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