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'S AM NEWS BRIEFING TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2021 5:00 AM EDT Media Analyses: "Defiant" President Defends Withdrawal, Blames Others For Chaos. President Biden returned to Washington on Monday, and addressed the nation on the situation in Afghanistan in a speech that was commonly described as "defiant." In
an American president at a consequential time. To, quote, toward the end, 'I am the President of the United States. The buck stops with me.' Earlier Joe Biden saying, 'I stand squarely behind my decision.' Consequential because of the pictures, imagery and stories the American people are seeing come out of
dent Defends Withdrawal, Blames Others For Chaos. President Biden returned to Washington on Monday, and addressed
United States. The buck stops with me.' Earlier Joe Biden saying, 'I stand squarely behind my decisio
compelling, and I think he did to do that as well. But I do think that he needed to take responsibility. My thoughts go back to President Kennedy in the Bay of Pigs crisis. When that was a failure, he stood before the American people and he said victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. I am the r
ction campaign, but high-profile Republicans like Joe Scarborough had previously supported an audit of
ory is always re-written by the winners.... The most recent installment, episode 6, OLIVER STONE'S UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE US: JFK chronicled JFK and the Bay of Pigs; on the brink of total war during Cuban Missile Crisis; early Vietnam; JFK's attempts at peace with Khrushchev; JFK assassinated. As a result, I too
also been visited by their kind. His father, old Joe Kennedy, had gotten rich off illegal booze during
d, and | didn’ t have a thing HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015113 to tell them, except that | could agree with their speculation that the motive was revenge for the Bay of Pigs failure. There’ s no doubt in my mind that if you had been elected in 1960, the invasion would have been completely successful. For a while | believe
s told by panelists, such as Harry Hershfield and Joe Laurie, Jr., had to be spontaneous and related to
d brats—their fathers’ children, he said contemptuously of Joseph Kennedy. I don’t like them and I don’t trust them. Look at the way they screwed up the Bay of Pigs. A bunch of arrogant amateurs.” 50 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017137 4.2.12 WC: 191694 Early the next morning, he called me back. “I’ve spoken to Abe Chayes
in the old white Lincoln supplied by their Uncle Joe, a marijuana dealer. A tire went flat the next da
the benefit of hindsight, was the decision by The New York Times to withhold publication of the Kennedy administration’s imminent intention to invade the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. Had it disclosed this information, the fiasco might have been called off, many lives saved and America’s reputation less tarnished.) The mo
Entities connected to both Joe Biden and the Bay of Pigs

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Prince Andrew
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Stephen Hawking
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Michael Cohen
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George Mitchell
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Prince Charles
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