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After we strip away the hagiography provided by the Democrat media arm, we find this:
Democrat telling of history marks the Cuban Missile Crisis as the singular achievement of John F. Kennedy.
Yet, it is a primary example of the Left's hagiography:
telling half the truth about their heroes.
Here, a more important telling of half-truths:
The Cuban Missile Crisis.
"Many contemporary observers applauded
Kennedy for standing up to the Soviet Union. His insistence that Soviet missiles be dismantled and taken away from Cuba earned him widespread support. Those nuclear weapons were a direct threat to American cities."
The National Archives | Heroes & Villains | Kennedy & Cuba
Here's the truth:
John Kennedy was as much the cause of the crisis as the hero.
“The purpose right now is to show that you are glossing over Kennedy. You are airbrushing the bad things,” Elder answers."
Larry Elder Hammers Chris Matthews in Agonizing Interview: ‘I’m Sorry For Cutting You Off the Way You Cut Your Guests Off’
Time-line
a. The
Vienna summit was a summit meeting held on June 4, 1961, in
Vienna,
Austria, between
President John F. Kennedy of the
United States and
Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the
Soviet Union.
Vienna summit - Wikipedia
b." In May 1962, Khrushchev announced to the Politburo his secret plan to put Soviet
nuclear missiles in Cuba." Cuban Missile Crisis: Kennedy's Mistakes
c. October, 1962....
Cuban Missile Crisis
In fact, that
Khrushchev swept the floor with cowed Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis was mainstream conservative conclusion throughout much of the Cold War. Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater, for instance, represented opposite poles of the Republican establishment of their time.
"
Kennedy pulled defeat out of the jaws of victory,” complained Richard Nixon. "Then gave the Soviets squatters rights in our backyard."
'The Biggest Defeat in Our Nation’s History'—The Cuban Missile Crisis
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It's a public relations fable that Khrushchev quailed before Kennedy," wrote Alexander Haig. "The legend of the eyeball to eyeball confrontation invented by Kennedy's men paid a handsome political dividend. But the
Kennedy-Khrushchev deal was a deplorable error resulting in political havoc and human suffering through the America's."
William Buckley's National Review devoted several issues to exposing and denouncing
Kennedy's appeasement. The magazine's popular "The Third World War" column by James Burnham roundly condemned
Kennedy's Missile Crisis solution as "America's Defeat."
Even Democratic luminary Dean Acheson despaired: "This nation lacks leadership," he grumbled about the famous “Ex-Comm meetings” so glorified in the movie Thirteen Days. "The meetings were repetitive and without direction. Most members of Kennedy's team had no military or diplomatic experience whatsoever. The sessions were a waste of time."
'The Biggest Defeat in Our Nation’s History'—The Cuban Missile Crisis
Amazing what you can put over when you control the media.
Before Kennedy agreed to meet with Khrushchev, at the
Vienna summit was a summit meeting held on June 4, 1961,
his own advisers had warned him not to do so.....they recognized him as a 'lightweight' as far as foreign policy experience.
"Senior American statesmen like George Kennan
advised Kennedy not to rush into a high-level meeting, arguing that Khrushchev had engaged in anti-American propaganda and that the issues at hand could as well be addressed by lower-level diplomats.
Kennedy’s own secretary of state, Dean Rusk, had argued much the same in a Foreign Affairs article the previous year..
...
.Kennedy went ahead, and for two days he was pummeled by the Soviet leader. Despite his eloquence, Kennedy was no match as a sparring partner, and offered only token resistance as Khrushchev lectured him ...
Kennedy’s aides convinced the press at the time that behind closed doors the president was performing well, but American diplomats in attendance, including the ambassador to the Soviet Union, later said they were shocked that Kennedy had taken so much abuse. ... the meeting was “just a disaster.”
Khrushchev’s aide, after the first day, said the American president seemed “very inexperienced, even immature.” Khrushchev agreed, noting that the youthful Kennedy was “too intelligent and too weak.” [Can you say 'Obama'?]
Kennedy’s assessment of his own performance was no less severe. Only a few minutes after parting with Khrushchev, Kennedy, a World War II veteran, told James Reston of The New York Times that the summit meeting had been the “roughest thing in my life.” Kennedy went on:
“He just beat the hell out of me. I’ve got a terrible problem if he thinks I’m inexperienced and have no guts. "
Opinion | Kennedy Talked, Khrushchev Triumphed
