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Dean Rusk, Secretary of State: up, because he voiced advance doubts about the success of the Cuba expedition-and refrained afterward from reminding his teammates that he had been right...
...morning last week, President Kennedy's military aide, Brigadier General Chester Clifton, got an urgent telephone call. He told the caller to telephone the President at his weekend home in Middleburg, Va. Shortly afterward, in keeping with instructions he had given, the President was awakened and told that an invasion force of Cuban revolutionaries had landed as planned on the south coast of Cuba. So began John F. Kennedy's darkest and bitterest week as President...
...wore just one piece of jewelry: a feather-shaped diamond clip in her bouffant hair. At a signal, the Marine Band's dance orchestra in the East Room struck up Mr. Wonderful; Vice President Lyndon Johnson and his wife Ladybird joined the Kennedys in leading the first dance. Afterward, Jack stood at one end of the ballroom greeting guests while Jackie toured the floor with a battalion of successive partners. The verdict on her footwork, as announced by Florida's Senator George Smathers: "She's divine...
After midnight, in simultaneous landings at three beaches on the Bay of Pigs, 90 miles southeast of Havana (see map), the attackers went in with artillery, tanks and B-26 air support. Soon afterward, Castro's military duty officer at Jagüey Grande reported fighting on the beach. The choice of a landing place seemed to come as a surprise to a military expert of the Revolutionary Council, onetime Cuban Army Colonel Ramón Barqu...
...Cuba's provisional government and the elections that would come afterward, in which (as part of the bargain) he agreed not to be a candidate. But neither the president nor his council had much to say about the military campaign that was gathering force. All now say that the timing was wrong, that an invasion should not have been mounted until after a revolutionary mood had been established inside Cuba by a growing wave of sabotage and underground organization. Nevertheless, they went along. The day they elected Miró, Frente members asked him: "Do you think we are going...