Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the Fiasco. All that happened before the Cuba fiasco and the sudden collapse of the Western position in Laos. Then Jack Kennedy had more than enough to cope with. On May 4 Ambassador Thompson reported from Moscow that the Russians wondered if Kennedy was still interested in seeing Khrushchev. With the report came hints that Khrushchev might even be willing to avoid talking about such embarrassing-to the U.S.-things as Cuba. Kennedy remained willing: he checked with Republican Richard Nixon, won Nixon's endorsement and the promise that Nixon would publicly approve a Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting even...
...Americans seem to have an infinite capacity for doing the wrong thing. The recent fiasco in Cuba is a perfect example of the folly of sending a boy to do a man's job. The American Indians were smarter in this respect. They let the young men do the fighting but reserved policymaking for the old men of the tribe...
...political haymaking of the Democrats during the U-2 affair fares ill when compared with the firm support Republicans are giving the present Administration during the Cuban fiasco. We venture to say that there was a good deal more presidential wisdom involved in the planning of the U-2 flights than in the Cuban invasion...
Amid the first pained reactions to the Bay of Pigs fiasco, thoughts of sending in the Marines had occurred to many Americans, even including some New Frontiersmen. But within the Administration, the impulse quickly faded away. For a while at least, Castro is safe from any invasion by U.S. armed forces-unless he foolishly gives the U.S. an excuse for intervention by trying to seize the Guantánamo naval base...
...Lerner wallowed in despair: "Love is never enough when pitted against death in an unequal struggle." In the New York Daily News, Ted Lewis sounded almost grateful that "a little of the self-assurance of the Kennedy Administration has rubbed off as a result of the Cuban invasion fiasco." Concluded Columnist Russell Reeves in the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Cuban events last week demonstrated that life is unlike the television westerns. The good guys do not always...