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thompsonx -> RE: Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever? (1/8/2010 6:46:25 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
Fair points. I tend to think more of the bay of pigs thing and the Cuban missile crisis as far as Kennedy goes, though: I doubt Nixon would have been stupid enough for either of those messes, even in the early '60s.
Kennedy was the one who stopped the Bay of Pigs fiasco. From the first day of his presidency he told the CIA he would hot allow U.S. air support for the Bay of Pigs invasion. The CIA thought they would force him to do it by starting the invasion without air support and then laying the blame on Kennedy. Kennedy refused to be black mailed.
The missile crissis was avoided by Kennedy taking the U.S. ICBMs out of Turkey in exchange for Kruscheve pulling his ICBMs out of Cuba. Curtis LeMay however had 40,000 marines poised off the shores of Cuba totally unaware of Cuba's tactical nukes which would have vaporized all of us at Gitmo as well as the invasion force. He also had three ICBM targeted for DC,Baltimore and NYC.
HST.
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