09-05-2010, 04:23 PM
Thanks Paul. On the hostage crisis, there's two schools of thought, then there's the truth! 
Kennedy was behind (in the sense of being in favour of) breaking up Standard Oil as a monopoly, which McCone and Harriman wouldn't have liked much. Harriman had been a special envoy to Stalin and I believe ambassador to Great Britain during WWII, so might've been in competition with Joseph Kennedy, or part of the clean-up following his posting to England.
Kennedy was behind (in the sense of being in favour of) breaking up Standard Oil as a monopoly, which McCone and Harriman wouldn't have liked much. Harriman had been a special envoy to Stalin and I believe ambassador to Great Britain during WWII, so might've been in competition with Joseph Kennedy, or part of the clean-up following his posting to England.