Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came Cuba. An extremely difficult and complex situation was faced by the politicians, demogogues, and dolts in Washington. And they handled it superbly. The Establishment which had infuriated the Peace Marchers with a patronizing hostility had risen to the occasion and perhaps saved all our lives...
Williams is now an exile from the United States living in Cuba, and Negroes With Guns is written directly from the experiences that made him into an outlaw. He spent six years working to integrate his home town of Monroe, N.C. where he established for himself, and the rest of the Negro community, the principle of carrying weapons and using them in self defense. In August, 1961 he left the town at threat of death, and a warrant was distributed for his arrest. It is still in the Cambridge Post Office, showing a rather beefy, beard man with a narrow...
Insisting that he would "never again run for any public office," Nixon spoke out as "an individual citizen." Most particularly, he criticized the Kennedy Administration's handling of Cuba, and the failure to provide sufficient air cover over the Bay of Pigs. Said he: "When the suggestion is made that President Eisenhower may or may not have planned air cover, I would only suggest this: I cannot imagine the General, who planned the greatest invasion in history, the invasion of Normandy, allowing those 1,500 brave Cubans to go into the Bay of Pigs there without having first destroyed...
Aside from Cuba, Nixon said that New York's Nelson Rockefeller looks most likely for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination, that President Kennedy can be defeated next year if G.O.P. leaders "learn to enjoy fighting the Kennedy Administration as much as they seem to enjoy fighting each other...
...some interesting thoughts. "I have learned,'' wrote Lippmann from Arizona, "that we must distinguish between a war party-of which I have seen no traces out here-and a war whoop party, which likes to be warlike but does not want war." What the whoopers want in Cuba, he said, "are the fruits of a successful war without having to fight." But. he added, "only an invasion, and an invasion only in the first days before the casualty lists come in. would satisfy the emotions of the war whoopers.'' Taking the lead in whooping...