Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counsel, gave a backgrounder to newsmen pointing out that the operation had begun under Eisenhower and was carried out by holdovers. It was one of the few times that Sorensen irritated Kennedy. "Don't do that," he rasped. "We made this mistake." Before the successful conclusion of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, Kennedy was certain that his failure to heed the early warnings from Republicans such as Homer Capehart and Kenneth Keating about the missiles would bring Democratic defeats in the fall. Some aides wanted to deprecate the Republicans, but Kennedy refused. "Capehart," he told Sorensen...
...Dean tells how the President's personal attorney Herbert Kalmbach raised money to pay the attorneys' fees for the Watergate defendants, Nixon speculates that the "cover of a Cuban committee" must have been used. (Some of the burglars were Cuban exiles...
Having made some concessions, the Nixon Administration at least gained time; it will be almost eleven months before the issue of relations with Castro comes up again. Politically, this is important to the White House: it wants to do nothing to endanger the support of anti-Cuban Southern conservatives in the expected Watergate showdown in Congress...
Kissinger's statement led some observers to speculate that the United States might be preparing to change its Cuban trade policy. The United States has supported the boycott of Cuba by the OAS since...
...speech before a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Saturday, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 made no specific mention of America's Cuban policy, but he did state his opposition to "the formation of an exclusive bloc...