Comparing Presidents

Bay of Pigs Disaster Remembered

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Fifty-five years ago, my parents and lots of other Cubans woke up to "la invasion," or the invasion that most of us expected and were ready for. There were groups in Cuba who had been fighting Castro, from sabotage to confronting the regime block by block.
This is about The Bay of Pigs, an event that most people have forgotten unless you're a Cuban of my parents' generation or someone like them who was impacted by it.
The plans for the invasion were passed on to new president Kennedy by the outgoing Eisenhower administration.
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The veterans of the brigade have a museum in Miami, a reminder to the young about the men who were willing to fight and remove communism from the island.
The politically correct explanation is that the invasion failed because Cubans did not rise up against Castro. Actually, it failed because the total plan was never carried out, and the men were left stranded, as Michael Sullivan wrote:
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President John F. Kennedy

President Kennedy, anxious to cover up America's role, inexplicably called off all American air support, leaving the rebels stranded on the beach.
Cuban army and militia units, organized by Castro himself, swarmed the invasion site to block the rebels from gaining the interior of the island.
The Cuban Air Force rallied to strafe the landing site and the supply ships moored in the bay.
One ship sank and the remaining three barely made it out to sea.
Without resupply or air support, the men of 2506 Assault Brigade managed to hold out for two days, until nearly all were either killed or captured by pro-Castro forces. When the smoke cleared, 114 died and 1,189 languished in Cuban prisons.
There they remained for 22 months, until the Kennedy administration paid more than $50 million in food, medicine and cash for their release.
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Over the years, I have personally spoken to many of the veterans of Brigade 2506. Like my parents, they started their new lives in the U.S., and many served in the U.S. military. Every one of them tells me the mission would have succeeded if the plan had been carried out.
The lesson of The Bay of Pigs is simple. Presidential weakness, and confusion, has consequences way beyond the event in question.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/the_other_bay_of_pigs_story.html

April 17, 2016
The other Bay of Pigs story
By Silvio Canto, Jr.

JFK Deceived Military, Eisenhower and Public About Major Events, Book Review

John F. Kennedy meets with Air Force Maj. Richard “Steve” Heyser, (left) and Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Curtis LeMay (center) at the White House in 1962.

Photo: AP

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According to “The Politics of Deception,” a new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Patrick Sloyan, Kennedy lied to Eisenhower, just as he would lie to the American people about the nature of this deal and others.
In truth, writes Sloyan, Kennedy folded against his tough Soviet counterpart, acceding to Khrushchev’s demands to remove 15 nuclear warheads from Turkey — within easy striking distance of Moscow — almost immediately.
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Based on recently uncovered, secret tape recordings Kennedy made in the White House — including of the Eisenhower call above — plus declassified documents, Sloyan says that Kennedy was deceitful about some of his most important accomplishments and positions due to his desire to win re-election in 1964.
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Sloyan writes that in truth, Kennedy immediately embraced the idea of a swap, included Khrushchev’s silence as part of the deal, then covered it up for the American public.
Kennedy was concerned about the effect that news of the swap could have on his re-election chances. Many of his advisors feared that it would look to the American people as if “Kennedy had sacrificed a NATO ally after being outfoxed by the communist leader,” and that the deal would cause our fellow NATO countries to “forever doubt America’s solidarity.”
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Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy talk in 1961.

Photo: AP
LeMay [. . .] openly called Kennedy’s deal “the greatest defeat in our history.”
LeMay was forbidden by his position from revealing Kennedy’s deal to the public. But he and another opponent of the deal, Gen. Thomas Power, commander of the Strategic Air Command, were scheduled to leave their posts in July 1964, leaving them free to reveal what they knew and likely torpedo Kennedy’s re-election. To keep them quiet, both had their service extended until after the election.
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But Sloyan writes that neither Kennedy brother was genuinely sympathetic to their cause, concerned as they were with losing the support of white southern Democrats in ’64.
“ ‘Stop them,’ the president told Harris Wofford, his special assistant on civil rights. ‘Get your goddamn friends off the buses.’ ” Kennedy believed that the event was intended to embarrass him and put him in “a politically painful spot.”
Kennedy was so nervous about Martin Luther King Jr. that his secret recordings reveal him telling brother Bobby, “King is so hot these days that it’s like having [Karl] Marx coming to the White House.”
The president had already betrayed the civil-rights movement, failing to keep a campaign promise to end literacy tests for voting and appointing racist judges in the South.
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The coup was launched on Nov. 1, 1963. When Diem asked Lodge for help, the ambassador offered the protection of the US embassy but, possibly based on Kennedy’s order, would not send help to collect him, saying, “We can’t get involved.” With no way out, Diem was stuck, and he was assassinated later that day.
Lodge’s right-hand man, John Michael Dunn, later described Diem’s killing as, Sloyan writes, a “gangland murder,” a “hit” orchestrated by Lodge.
But if Lodge engineered it, Kennedy’s order gave him the tools to carry it out.
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“Kennedy’s order to get rid of Diem,” writes Sloyan, “was the real beginning of the American war in Vietnam.”

http://nypost.com/2015/02/15/secret-tapes-reveal-jfks-duplicity-in-cold-war-civil-rights/

Secret tapes reveal JFK’s duplicity in Cold War, civil rights
By Larry Getlen
New York Post
February 15, 2015 | 6:00am

Man Claims He and His Boss Fired Shots That Killed JFK

Confession: James Files (above) says he is the man who assassinated Pres. John F. Kennedy.

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A former mob hitman is coming forward once again to say that he is the man who killed President John F. Kennedy.
James Files says that he was the man on the grassy knoll back on November 22, 1963, and that he fired the bullet into Pres. Kennedy's head that ultimately killed him.
He says the other shot that hit Pres. Kennedy came from his boss, Charles 'Chuckie' Nicoletti, who was hiding out in the book depository, the same place Lee Harvey Oswald is believed to have been at the time of the shooting.
Files also says that Oswald, who was charged, but then shot dead before he could be tried or convicted in the killing, never filed a single shot.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2843665/Mob-hitman-James-Files-claims-man-responsible-President-John-F-Kennedy-s-assassination-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-never-fired-single-shot.html

Mob hitman James Files claims once again he was the man responsible for President John F. Kennedy's assassination - and that Lee Harvey Oswald never fired a single shot
James Files claims in the documentary I Killed JFK that he was the man who killed President John F. Kennedy
Files says he was standing on the grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 and fired the shot that killed Pres. Kennedy
He also claims that Lee Harvey Oswald never fired a single shot, and that his boss Charles 'Chuckie' Nicoletti was in the book depository
By Chris Spargo for MailOnline
Published: 02:12 EST, 21 November 2014 | Updated: 08:25 EST, 21 November 2014

Comments from JFK's Favorite Brightest Man

At a dinner of intelligent men and women, John F. Kennedy said, "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas
Jefferson dined alone . . . . !!"

This is what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802 . . . . :
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous, to our liberties, than standing armies . . . .
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency . . . . first by inflation, then by deflation . . . . The banks and the corporations that will grow up around them . . . . will deprive the people of all property . . . . until their children wake-up homeless, on the continent that their fathers conquered . . . . !!"

More quotes from Thomas Jefferson . . . .
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the Right . . . ."To keep and bear arms" . . . . Is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government . . . . !!"
-- Thomas Jefferson

"No free man shall ever be barred from the use of arms . . . . !!"
-- Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time . . . . with the blood of patriots as well as tyrants . . . . !!"
-- Thomas Jefferson

"My reading of history, convinces me, that . . . . most bad government, results from too much government . . . . !!"
-- Thomas Jefferson

"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them . . . . !!"
-- Thomas Jefferson

"To compel a man to subsidize, with his taxes, the propagation of ideas, which he disbelieves and abhors . . . . is sinful and tyrannical . . . . !!"
-- Thomas Jefferson

"The democracy will cease to exist, when . . . . you take away from those who are willing to work, and give to those who would not . . . . !!"
-- Thomas Jefferson

"It is incumbent on every generation, to pay its own debts as it goes . . . . A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world . . . . !!"
-- Thomas Jefferson

"When we get piled upon one another, in large cities, as in Europe . . . . we shall become as corrupt as Europe . . . . !!"
-- Thomas Jefferson

Pol Says Johnson and Nixon Linked to JFK Assassination

Just moments before: The presidential motorcade through Dallas a few moments before John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was shot on Friday, November 22, 1963

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2322981/Former-Nixon-aide-claims-evidence-Lyndon-B-Johnson-arranged-John-F-Kennedys-assassination-new-book.html

Former Nixon aide claims he has evidence Lyndon B. Johnson arranged John F. Kennedy's assassination in new book
Roger Stone claims Johnson ‘micro-managed’ Kennedy’s Dallas motorcade, demanding it pass through Dealy Plaza on the afternoon he was shot
He also says that Johnson, instructed Richard Nixon to hire Jack Ruby several years before he shot Lee Harvey Oswald
The revelations are made in is book 'The man who killed Kennedy - the case against LBJ' out later this year
By DAMIAN GHIGLIOTTY
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 08:46 EST, 11 May 2013 | UPDATED: 17:10 EST, 11 May 2013

JFK Was Addicted To Meth, Book Review

Dr. Feelgood
Richard A, Lertzman
William J. Birnes
Skyhorse Publishing
New York 2013



Jacobson injected meth repeatedly into President John Kennedy and stars like Marilyn Monroe (below)



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In 1962, at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, a man “peeled off his clothing and began prancing around his hotel suite.” His bodyguards were cautiously amused, until the man “left the suite and began roaming through the corridor of the Carlyle.”
The man in question was delusional, paranoid and suffering a “psychotic break” from the effects of an overdose of methamphetamine.
He was also the president of the United States.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_kennedy_meth_4gGCkatf61gYCpkTZhg4FM

The Kennedy meth
How a physician codenamed ‘Dr. Feelgood’ hooked John F. Kennedy — and half of Hollywood — on methamphetamines
New York Post
By LARRY GETLEN
Last Updated: 7:49 AM, April 21, 2013
Posted: 10:18 PM, April 20, 2013

Kennedy Brothers - All Gone Now

DYNASTY: From left, Kennedy brothers Robert, Edward and John.