Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedys paid their state visit to Canada not knowing quite what to expect. Many Canadians are resentful of their nation's economic and cultural dependence on the U.S., and Canada strongly opposed U.S. intervention in Cuba. But the Kennedys soon melted the Canadian ice. At a formal state dinner for 100, every head snapped around as though at parade-ground command to admire the entrance of Jackie Kennedy in her pure white silk sheath. At the following reception for 500, her husband deftly fielded all topics, talked wheat with a Saskatchewan reporter, education with a college girl, trucks with...
...runs U.S. policy on Latin America, and who in particular is responsible for Cuba? For three weeks the Senate Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Latin America, headed by Oregon's Wayne Morse, has been working on the answer to that question. One after another, the Kennedy Administration's top officials-Secretary of State Rusk, CIA Director Allen Dulles, Latin America Task Force Chief Adolf A. Berle-have marched up Capitol Hill to give their answers. The hearings are closed, but enough testimony has leaked out to prove President Kennedy's wry comment. "Victory has 100 fathers, and defeat...
...leaders-that the decision to attack was made not by either the CIA or the Pentagon, but by the Cubans themselves. He also denied the exiles' claim that the U.S. provided "weak counsel." The CIA's Dulles found fault with misleading reports that anti-Castro forces inside Cuba would rise as soon as the invaders hit the beach...
...topflight man for the Latin American job was the fact that all real authority was tightly held by Berle and his task force. Since then, so many men have had a hand in policy that no one really has responsibility. Not counting the investigating teams looking into the Cuba failure itself, and Kennedy's proposal to send U.N. Ambassador Stevenson on a fence-mending swing around South America, at least four top-level men are handling various facets of inter-American affairs...
...Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 43, Harvard historian turned White House aide, slipped into Latin American affairs first by traveling south with President Kennedy's Food-for-Peace mission, then by writing the famed State Department "White Paper" on Cuba. His influence touches all aspects of policy...