Word: fiasco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poles Apart. Several similar resolutions have been introduced in the past three years, but they got nowhere largely because they were considered superfluous. The U.S. has long been pursuing, in word and deed, just such a policy. John Kennedy emphatically stated after the Bay of Pigs fiasco that he would not let the doctrine of nonintervention in the affairs of other hemisphere nations excuse inaction in the face of Communist aggression. Lyndon Johnson restated the policy during the Dominican crisis: "We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists...
...From the Bay of Pigs fiasco, President Kennedy learned that it is vital to our security that a President be a forceful and intelligent leader, the sole determiner of policy. The major lesson for the American people is that it is better to accept a momentary setback in prestige than risk a long-lasting loss of respect throughout the world. Kennedy best expressed this concept when he said, "What is prestige? Is it the shadow of power or the substance of power?" The Bay of Pigs was far from a total loss for the U.S., for it provided Kennedy with...
...discussion of the Bay of Pigs fiasco by Sorensen, Schlesinger and TIME [July 30], the moral issue is ignored. What right has the U.S. to overthrow the government of a sovereign state? We justify our military presence in Viet Nam on the principle that North Viet Nam has no right to interfere with the sovereignty of South Viet Nam. And yet we have ignored this principle in Guatemala, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. How can we ask the world to live by one standard of morality when we insist upon living...
...memoirs busting out all over about life under John Kennedy, last week's crop was mostly devoted to a re-examination of the Bay of Pigs fiasco (see TIME ESSAY). But in LIFE magazine this week, Historian Arthur Schlesinger moves on to discuss another facet of the New Frontier-the President's disenchantment with the State Department...
Both memoirists assign to Kennedy what Sorensen calls "many and serious mistakes." Both admire Kennedy's insistence on bearing the public blame for the fiasco. Sorensen recalls how Kennedy told a news conference the obvious fact that he was "the responsible officer of government," after remarking ruefully: "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan." Yet Sorensen also remembers how, while walking in the White House garden the same day, Kennedy "told me, at times in caustic tones, of some of the other fathers of defeat who had let him down." The "fathers" were the new President...