Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the week, Robert Francis Kennedy spent his mornings and afternoons as a member of a four-man panel, headed by retired Army General Maxwell D. Taylor, that the President had appointed to find out just where the CIA went wrong in planning the Cuba invasion, and to recommend changes in the nation's intelligence system. When not digging among the Cuba-invasion ruins, Bobby Kennedy was at the White House, serving as the President's closest counselor. It was usually late in the afternoon before Bobby got to the Justice Department to carry out his tasks...
Bobby Kennedy's crowded new schedule pointed up the most important administrative result of the Cuba disaster: with John Kennedy disappointed in the performance of Government and military professionals, his brother had emerged as a sort of Administration strong man. There is no title for the job, and there may never be one, but Bobby Kennedy is much closer to being an Assistant President than Sherman Adams ever was under Dwight Eisenhower...
...does not want it. In any event, Bobby Kennedy realizes that Allen Dulles has to go, making way for a younger man who can give the CIA a thorough overhauling. But the Kennedy brothers are not angry with Allen Dulles. Indeed, as a man, Dulles emerged from the Cuba fiasco with high personal honors. Shortly before the invasion, he urged a bigger air strike to knock out Cuban planes on the ground before the invaders landed, but he was overruled at the insistence of Secretary of State Dean Rusk. When the invasion flopped, Dulles took full blame...
...Cuba disaster brought a lot of shifts, some subtle and some drastic, in the new New Frontier pecking order. Among the major ups and downs...
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...