RICHARD NIXON AND THE CUBAN FIASCO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450084-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: June 27, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Richard Nixon And The Cuban .Fiasc
In view of the insincerity of the
man, it sometimes seems quite re-
markable that Richard Nixon ever
dime as close' as he did to winning
the presidency of.the United States
last fall.
Back in the days of the Truman
adrrlfnistration, Nixon used to ex-
preis shock and indignation when
se#.e office-holders Accepted gifts of
ineras, deep freezers, mink coats
y#td other items. Yet it was reveal-
ed in 1952, when he was running for
vice president, that Nixon himself
had taken a gift of more than
$18,000 in cash while he was a mem-
ber of the United States Senate. He
explained away this gift of cash
with his famous "Checkers Show"
in the midst of the 992 presiden4al
campaign. dne$+t`:it'he.inade was
that in spite of the $18,000 gift, his
wife still was compelled to wear
cloth coats ;instead of mink coats
Nikon has
7 More recently Mr-7I,
been worried, it seems, .about the
"morality" of this country giving
aid to Cuban, rebels:, aga.Jnst Fidel
a ".ih R.V. .$ a Y+.
/ill l Cuban fiasco, and this w
Castro. Last Oct. 21, for instance,
Nixon charged in a televisionsde
bate that John F. Kennedy's rah
ness in suggesting that the United
States back anti-Castro forces in
`and out of Cuba was "probably the
most dangerously irresponsible"
proposal of the campaign.
As a matter of'fact, the Eisen-
hower-Nixon administration had -_i
been making secret preparations for
the invasion of Cuba for nearly, six
such great shock at the kennedy
suggestion that the Republican ad-
ministration should be doing more
to aid the anti-Castro forces. It was
even hoped in Republican circles
that the- Cuban, invasion could be
Apro~ng during the c, :anxisdgn te#1
the Nixon"'campaign.
Now that President Kennedy ,has
made the horrible mistake of going
along with the Eisenhower adrpln-
titration's. plans for a CIA-spon-
sored invasion: of Cuba by far too
is going about the country. eupr r-``
insincere' is that .the decision, to
What makes IXOn'g Ctitikis#r- sc
,and 6ther;direct74i #ary;assi,;tuue
dmplying,,of course, that the United
;ember, during ; the,',`,
Nixon administration. ,
ull responsibility for
and courageous. thing
doing. so, he saved
,intelligence and mill,
from being humiliatiA,
Pons In the worth
ed by Congress.
right to make any cr
at all about Presi
senhower and Ric
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