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

of her predecessor. The president gets precisely the national security system he mandates and deserves. He is, as JFK noted in the immediate wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, "the responsible officer of government." In the end it is the president, and not the Blackberry or some other device, who will drive the di

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

be explained by them in any other way. This is dangerous. Just as Nikita Khrushchev concluded that President Kennedy was weak and incompetent after the Bay of Pigs failure and the botched Vienna summit, and then proceeded to test the American president from Cuba to Berlin, so President Vladimir Putin and Supr

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

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

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