14-06-2013, 05:09 PM
Phil Dragoo Wrote:Nathaniel
"I sense in your writing you see John F. Kennedy as experiencing a transformation from Cold Warrior to peace."
Phil, that would be a wrong description of my view.
I simply do not see as much a divergence between the overall view of JFK provided in Unspeakable and Destiny Betrayed as Jim does.
I think the difference that IS there can be explained in terms of the conflict between the powers of the President on paper and the realities of dealing with the National Security State at the moment (1961-63) when de jure power of the president over this new war bureaucracy was being tested to a degree that never happened before or after. Because after the the President knew better than to contest the CIA's power... most of the time.