i can`t believe you weren`t called on this b.s,stevie..........
who was president when the bay of pigs invasion happened?.....i think it was jfk?...no?.....
nixon was not in power..for god`s sake,he was an ex-v.p......kennedy was the decision maker....
and he botched it horribly....no air support...sending 1500 ex pat`s in to be slaughterd.......
a boondoggle..
by your logic,we could blame clinton for iraq....and 9/11.....
based on clinton`s comments,the iraqi invasion was set in motion on clinton`s watch....and the planning for 9/11 certainly started on clinton`s watch....
right?....no,that`s wrong....
nobody`s blaming clinton...even though the 9/11 plan was obviously put in motion on his watch...
what did nixon do?.....all he did was give kennedy moral support after the bay of pigs failed miserably....
you could say that kennedy won his election vs nixon in a similar,very controversial manner to bush`s defeat of gore....
what did nixon do?...after,as some alleged,having the election pulled out from under him?...
did he fly overseas as gore/clinton and carter did...and lambast kennedy?.....as these "patriots" did with bush?....
of course not...
""Do you remember or know how Kennedy's partisan and political foes responded to the crisis?
The Republican who'd lost the 1960 presidential election to Kennedy six months before and by less than a percentage point--and who had reason to believe that it may have been stolen--was invited to the White House. He didn't bring his resentments in his briefcase.
From Richard Reeves's "President Kennedy": " 'It was the worst experience of my life,' Kennedy said of the Cuban fiasco . . . to, of all people, Richard Nixon. . . . Kennedy wanted the symbolic presence and public support of both political friends and foes to show the nation and the world that Americans were rallying around the president, right or wrong."
Kennedy asked Nixon's advice. Nixon told him to do what he could to remove Castro and communism from Cuba. The meeting ended with Nixon telling JFK, "I will publicly support you to the hilt."
Kennedy and Nixon that day achieved something like "the kinship of competitors." Mr. Reeves writes. Nixon was good as his word, supporting the president and refusing to attack him.
Others did the same. New York's liberal governor Nelson Rockefeller and Arizona's conservative senator Barry Goldwater, both of whom thought they might run against Kennedy in the next election, met with him individually and gave the president their public support.
But the most important backing Kennedy needed was that of his immediate predecessor, Dwight Eisenhower, who had led America through the previous eight years of relative peace and prosperity. He also knew something about amphibious invasions, as he had commanded the biggest in history, in June 1944, on the beaches of Normandy.
Eisenhower was not amused by what had just happened to his country. Called to Camp David, he dined with Kennedy, and then together they toured the grounds. It was on this walk that Ike delivered a stinging reprimand in which he challenged Kennedy's judgment, knowledge and understanding of the world.
Richard Reeves: "That was in private. In public, the two men came back from their walk to face the reporters and cameras. . . . Kennedy told reporters he had asked the General to visit him so he could 'get the benefits of his thoughts and experiences.' Eisenhower told the reporters, 'I am all in favor of the United States supporting the man who has to carry the responsibility for foreign affairs.' "
Ike supported Kennedy's leadership and refrained from making public criticisms. Later, when the smoke cleared and Eisenhower was dead, Kennedy staffers said that of course Eisenhower had to support Kennedy; the original idea of a Cuban exile force had been hatched while Ike was president....
"""" This was spin, and of a particularly disingenuous sort."""" Under Eisenhower--under every president--possible and contingency foreign-affairs initiatives are put forth and game planned. That's what governments do. It was Kennedy who, only weeks after his November election, told CIA director Allen Dulles that he wanted the agency to move forward on Cuban invasion plans. After he was in the White House he consented to and encouraged the plans, and personally tinkered with them, to their detriment. """
more conspiracy theories?......rewriting history?....
that`s your problem..the new democrats...and apparently some of the old....
.you don`t have a clue regarding how to take a stand on anything....how to take responsiblity for anything...like kennedy did....
that`s why this new brand of moonbat democrat....the ones that call our soldiers nazi`s....and accuse our boys of murder based on leaks from their slimy moles...can`t win an election....
no character....just monday morning quarterbacking....and politics...
all you can do is second guess and bite the ankles of those that have to deal with tough situations......
almost 50 years after the fact...and still trying to pass the buck...
pathetic..
