Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canal treaties. After working with Reagan as one of three Democrats on his transition team, Stone was defeated in his re-election bid in 1980 and joined the Washington office of a major law firm. Last year Reagan named him vice chairman of the Presidential Commission on Broadcasting to Cuba...
...Nicaragua was very "interesting." By chance she was speaking in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, her back to the huge oil portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, resplendent in his Rough Rider uniform atop Texas, his indomitable horse. T.R. said his charge at Kettle and San Juan hills in Cuba was "the great day of my life" and the dispatch with his revolver of a fleeing Spaniard was notable because the Spaniard doubled over "neatly as a jack-rabbit." It was Roosevelt, of course, who bragged as President he "took the isthmus" for the Panama Canal as if it were...
...Marxist government, and Ike planned the Bay of Pigs, which John Kennedy launched and bungled. For all of that, rousing this nation to any deep and lasting interest in Lathi America was impossible. Even with rumors flying around Washington in the summer of 1962 about the Soviet buildup in Cuba, Kennedy was only half listening, although he ordered U-2 surveillance that discovered the offensive missiles in October. But all along, Kennedy, like others, believed if trouble came with the Soviet Union it would be in a traditional place like Berlin with traditional air and land confrontations. "If we solve...
...region. It is what we said about Algeria and what you said about Viet Nam. You always fail to appreciate the basic problem, which is domestic change. You are in a no-win situation. It would be better to cut your losses and obtain, as you did in Cuba, a guarantee that there will be no Soviet bases there to be used against you. But you cannot prevent domestic political evolution...
...reporting on devastating Southern floods, Catledge was known for his scrupulous fairness. During his tenure, he increased the Times's national and foreign coverage and pressed for shortened sentences and sharpened stories. In his most debated decision, he approved publication of a report on a planned invasion of Cuba ten days before the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle, but softened the article by deleting references to CIA involvement and to the invasion's imminence...