Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a time when actions like our now admitted intervention in Cuba were called "brinksmanship." There was a time also when Adlai Stevenson would have spoken out against our conduct in this affair as did, to his lasting credit, Senator Wayne Morse. Those were the days when Senator Kennedy was rapping President Eisenhower for publicly and vainly lying about our role in the U-2 incident...
...moon is red. Message to Stanislav. The moon is red." These are the words that came across the air to Guatemala on D-day-plus-one. We all felt as though we were on a sinking ship; Cuba was going to be lost. I, as an American citizen married to a Guatemalan, would have a lot of explaining...
...Guatemalans are completely incredulous as to what has happened. I hear all around me: "How can your countrymen allow the establishment of a Communist base in Cuba, a menace to the U.S. and all of Central and South America?" The people here have retained the memory of a past Communist regime too vividly to bury their heads in the sand...
...member of the younger generation, I say it's not all right to be second in space, to lose Cuba to Communism, and to appear foolish to the world. What do we have to do, wait to be blown from our rocking chairs...
With Shepard rode the hopes of the U.S. and the whole free world in a period of darkness. In recent weeks the U.S. had suffered a succession of setbacks: first, the orbital exploit claimed by the Soviet Union for its Major "Gaga"' Gagarin, then the Cuba debacle, and then retreat in strategic Southeast Asia. For Jack Kennedy, his New Frontier image badly tarnished by cold war defeats, Freedom 7 represented a daring and dangerous gamble. He had given the go-ahead for the man-shoot not to be made in such secrecy as to cast doubt on the actual...