CUBAN LESSON REFLECTED BY 'NEW' KENNEDY

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
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• Publication Date: April 2, 1962
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Cuban Lesson
Reflected
New' Kenne
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,
President Now Tiobes,
Every Argument on A4r.Issiie
? : ;
The M.o. In a series of articles by 7iite T Ogee a -
House reporter on President Kennedy andltia doing-
advisers. ? -
.
. BY ROBERT THOMPSON, Time; Wastihfaisa
Ions. You annetlepllY pit.# ,
Your Paint uoW,.;'
?There?trilfith. doubt dit4
the John P".. KdISItidy wb
todaY ordereinidear ts?
force,s the steel Inslustri
back down cin Ifs print,
crease, pushes guerr
warier:: in Viet.Nani; ffitytti
for a broad new con-? gits
.
world trade and se* i.,
Build 4et.t.14mfipt-ii tt,tiOre:
confident, skeptical Still
ng OrElc?Irt.
'
the major h.-mon of that Cubatidehatfe.
tragic episode. ? ? Pith' '
Cuba did not teach .
President how to make onl$
PALM BEACH, ,Fla.: ?
President Kennedy. stands
ready this. week to resume
? nuclear, testing in the at-
mosphere confident that he
and his trusted band Of
White House skeptics had
explored every avenue of
debate before the fateful
iltei.,lon was made.
Mr. Kennedy and his in-
^ ner (Artie of advi5ers are
certain one year after: the
Cuban, uatsstrophe that.
they hilie.'empibyed
. K..
* tat Of Chest
psign adviser Atrhur Se wing r
Mennedy's .1%3 cam- 'ia.
. on fore*, .irroderesidoeunttitahl,e acssuisbatanntst\o?i.imio
policy, from under 4(y !successfully', told me that
ransfer a Kennedy's i4ra
onlisrAim
management
.
p. tau' to roving ambaksa- PrihKen
e ethe late F'ranklin D.
44 ?least, *directly the re.
was
w
. Ith,RooseveltS. . ',' i ?
.-0.1t,* the 'Cabal- alflar ? 1 (Schlesinger.. Who ? has
les 41411440 lir ire ?smitten three books in ihis.
F .',:Ps.f.: l*th tirl?resiaCIlt fl.d..ilPf6rei.tte;tedR!Oltinie of si'velt,bog
ex-
ther,:miy:Welit Rob,Ainv4, that Mr.'''Kennedy
K Airing th
eieek. of turmoil oyer Cuba.
.. . . , .
? .tiltikttlempting in talks With
fiappfters tisizilivciteell hal
Aietft;?DeP lilt, fro q.....,
?`. " ibility or gig- a-
ltobert caredybktitt.
iiietaterined Bowles that he ;,...: , -. Mistake* Ideas ,
was as much apart of the ' i? L Mr. Kennedy was, spread
. 'Citilah failuibiresiTthilertit iii toil thin prior .to Cuba, in
the .men who Bei iivins.,,ito ., Thirt.hes was. involved in too. ?
. AyilinYlnatters. tht.t. a., id not .
'PArili?I'''' ? ? irtiktitl'iis tifne.
iri.,.,;.,t.zirrts,14r .;:Kennedy's ? habit of.
-Amin hkepg? whateVer?liCon? his
PCI...0.1.1ft? .r, , .?), 1111011%."Viiktti Ltls?61r e'SeewhiathP him'
?
4!..cl, aiNir .;;YC'ujlif .44 Orf- ,a1645:tes sod cOnsiderable dif-
' my who had been 'Mr. Ken 'fictilfy early in his admin- ? ,
iltdrif Latin American. ad- :isttation, and particularly
ilef qii.' the' White HOuse,i. 411"Inuthe. C'uta" 'ern'As?:
a''''its s'ent to the Stet; liaid: ' '''tants pot used to the
e '--Y, '.7---".--- '-' .1,..14. President's-mode of opera-
pertinent. 4/3 ?.....clocit.? .of, Lbe.X.tion thought that he meant .
2.Cennedy insiders explainedi f for them to act on matters .
"?1?1"e was dOnsidered 'a ND:I:When he mentioned . it to .
er likthe White itip,i1fle." I 4 ithr .
I ' *kit WrIfiM'an ' 'Miaow. b d
'?fee*" AI: lavnecelehtinutmeegrataus:e-
an hitgllectuat who deals in r;...,,, Vire " *bole olif ? his ' sai'de.,?,
rt grandiose ideas and prnzti4 ;7,7:7-- -"--44-'-'..."--- '-- 'e:4;00.,1 4_1
tWaS .1.311iiLed ' iribinf hts role' : ??
s .Bi.mdy's"*Mtlint4ifieilt ...:
Li hp jont had wanted -:-: .,-.: .:7-, _ : .-?
iteirsOrISolicy plannincin...4;:? -. - - -
e State Department: . di..;.;,'.?:.`' ? ?
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apd rvirin.ottndty
,states the 4eason fOr
wise decisions. But it
teach him not to
roftiorit soitalon,e
belleverthe mine
Mr. K edre 'counsel
have a, er reallzat
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