11-06-2013, 01:36 AM
I should explain something about the book.
I treated Cuba a little differently since I think it is a special case.
In the book, I take a whole chapter and analyze the Bay of Pigs affair since I consider that a key event for Kennedy.
IMO, if that had not occurred, I think the whole Cuba thing would have been different.
And as I show, in the Bay of Pigs thing, there was so much deliberate subterfuge we may never know what the real agenda was. But it was bad enough that JFK fired the top level of the CIA after conferring with Robert Lovett.
I do agree that after the Missile Crisis both JFK and Nikita K decided that once was way too much. And therefore that hastened a move for detente.
I treated Cuba a little differently since I think it is a special case.
In the book, I take a whole chapter and analyze the Bay of Pigs affair since I consider that a key event for Kennedy.
IMO, if that had not occurred, I think the whole Cuba thing would have been different.
And as I show, in the Bay of Pigs thing, there was so much deliberate subterfuge we may never know what the real agenda was. But it was bad enough that JFK fired the top level of the CIA after conferring with Robert Lovett.
I do agree that after the Missile Crisis both JFK and Nikita K decided that once was way too much. And therefore that hastened a move for detente.