06-09-2016, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.
Actually you are wrong about the Bay Of Pigs. The order was already set in stone by the Eisenhower administration. It was basically there for the signing when Kennedy took office, not sure what you are on about.
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On 28 January 1961, President Kennedy was briefed, together with all the major departments, on the latest plan (code-named Operation Pluto), which involved 1,000 men landed in a ship-borne invasion at Trinidad, Cuba, about 270 km (170 mi) south-east of Havana, at the foothills of the Escambray Mountains in Sancti Spiritus province. Kennedy authorized the active departments to continue, and to report progress. Trinidad had good port facilities, it was closer to many existing counter-revolutionary activities, it had an easily defensible beachhead, and it offered an escape route into the Escambray Mountains. When that scheme was subsequently rejected by the State Department, the CIA went on to propose an alternative plan. On 4 April 1961, President Kennedy then approved the Bay of Pigs plan (also known as Operation Zapata), because it had an airfield that did not need extending to handle bomber operations, it was farther away from large groups of civilians than the Trinidad plan, and it was less "noisy" militarily, which would make any future denial of direct US involvement more plausible.
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Sorry, Kennedy owns The Bay of Pigs fiasco.
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Also Kennedy's plight on behalf of the American people to lower the price of steel is hardly what you described.
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I only posted about Kennedy's big brother tactics against the Steel executives for Roxy's benefit since she's so against any big brother activities.
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