JFK was a reprobate with the ladies, I know, and he really, really messed up that Bay of Pigs.
As I recall, the Bay of Pigs plan was rejected by the Eisenhower Administration, but then dusted off and implemented by the Kennedy Administration.
Then you have to keep in mind that during WWII (Da Big One) Eisenhower was in charge of the Normandy invasion, while during the same war Kennedy was in charge of a wooden boat that sank.
Maybe relevant experience does provide some reasonable guidance after all...
I read O’REILLY’s K killing Kennedy, a quick but reasonably accurate account of those events. As I understood it, Kennedy approved it but at the last minute pulled out, denying much needed American help.
Not just a wooden boat that sank, but a wooden boat he was the Capitan thereof. HE got it sunk by attacking a Japanese destroyer... Brave or foolhardy?