Epstein Secrets

ieve victory — it could not defeat the Taliban." Charles A. Kupchan, a senior fellow at the Council on For

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

ock or the mysterious “pumpkin papers,” | suspect Charles Schulz is trying to remind me of something. kok

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

high standards. He was an African American named Charles Duncan, who, I later was told, was the son of the

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

m the D.A.’s office directing them to be in Judge Charles R. Alberti’s courtroom at two o’clock for a heari

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