Word: accompli
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...Administration. After deciding to cut Skybolt for budgetary and technical reasons, McNamara made the cancellation announcement without having allowed anyone else time to fit his decision into a coherent foreign policy. The Administration's behavior seemed so muddled because it was essentially a reaction to McNamara's fait accompli. The fact that Secretary of State Dean Rusk and McGeorge Bundy figured nowhere in the affair (as far as the press knows) is cited as supporting evidence. Rusk, in fact, did not even go to Nassau, while McNamara...
This pathetic situation would not exist today had the President acted courageously, and staged a rapid, forceful and decisive invasion of Cuba, presenting Russia with a fait accompli...
...Theory. Khrushchev's Cuban adventure seemed just such a probe. He hoped to present the U.S. with a fait accompli, carried out while the U.S. was totally preoccupied-or so, at least, Khrushchev supposed-with its upcoming elections. If he got away with it, he could presume that the Kennedy Administration was so weak and fearful that he could take over Berlin with impunity...
...support of the United Nations to go in and make this a full-out war. The thing started in such a way that everybody was a little bit fooled, and when suddenly the Soviets came in in strength with their tank divisions and it was a fait accompli, it was a great tragedy and disaster...
...Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey threatened reprisal at the next session: "We're going to have some legislative regurgitation." Cried Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, normally mild to a fault: "We have taken a shellacking, and I think it's outrageous." Then the Senate, faced by the House fait accompli, swallowed hard, approved the bill, and adjourned...