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Kennedy showed how weak

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Really. How? During his short term the following occured: Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missiles, Vietnam, withdrawing missiles from Turkey, and the Berlin Wall. Kennedy was a serious anti-communist, just not an effective one.

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Kennedy showed how weak the Russians were? Khruschev got exactly what he wanted from Kennedy -- the complete withdrawal of American missiles from Turkey. I don't call that a sign of "strength". Perhaps you forget the Bay of Pigs, the massive increase in the US forces in Vietnam, and the sanctioned murder of the Diem brothers that ensured there would never again be a stable government in South Vietnam. Why is it, by the way, that the Kennedy archives are the only presidential papers not open to the public and when bits and pieces are opened up, its at the discretion and after the review of such "distiguished neutral historians" as Arthur Schlessinger? What have they got to hide?