Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wednesday morning press conference last week (the afternoon New York Post was back in business, and the President wanted to hit at least the late editions), New York Timesman Tom Wicker put the proposition plainly. "Your policies in Europe seem to be encountering great difficulties," he said. "Cuba continues to be a problem. At home unemployment is high. There seems to be more concern in the country over a budget deficit than for a tax cut. In view of all these things, there is some impression and talk in the town and country that your Administration seems to have lost...
...programs that we have sent forward, so that we are still in the gestation period in those areas. I would say that our present difficulties in Europe, while annoying in a sense, or burdensome, are not nearly as dangerous as they were then. As far as Cuba, it continues to be a problem. On the other hand, there are advances in the solidarity of the hemisphere. I think we have made it clear that we will not permit Cuba to be an offensive military threat...
...their Shakespeare.* In fact, it had been cited two days before by New York Post Columnist William V. Shannon in an essay critical of Kennedy (in that same paper Shannon's colleague, James Wechsler, professed himself dismayed at the fact that press conference reporters keep asking Kennedy about Cuba...
Everywhere that President Kennedy turned, Cuba kept popping up. At his press conference, six of the 21 questions were about Cuba. Reporters learned little from his answers...
...President have accurate information about how many Soviet troops have been removed from Cuba so far? No. Had the Russians offered the U.S. any way of verifying the troop pullout? No. Was Kennedy satisfied with the rate of the Soviet withdrawal? No. What about charges that the Administration knew about the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba several days before finally taking action last October? "I have seen charges of all kinds," said Kennedy. "One day a distinguished Republican charges that it is all the CIA's fault, and the next day it is the Defense Department's fault...