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X ` Man

On 10/21/11 1:09 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:43:32 -0400, X `
wrote:

On 10/21/11 12:33 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:29:53 -0400, wrote:

If JFK had instead opted for some of his advisor's recommendations to bomb
the missile sites (which according
to historians he seriously considered) and:

the operation had been successful and:
Khrushchev had ordered the delivery ships home with their tails between
their legs,
he (JFK) would now be credited with making "the right decision".

Eisboch

The problem with that scenario was that they still might have been
able to get a missile or two off before they were destroyed.

We did not understand at the time that some of these missiles were
ready to fire and that the people in Cuba had tactical control.

Kennedy made the right decision based upon what he knew at the time.

I remember his speech. It was a Monday night, and I was in the student
union for something or other, and saw Kennedy on the tube in the lounge.
I was a lowly freshman, taking 16 credit hours, and I was swamped with
studying I had to do and papers I had to write.

A year and a month later, and Kennedy was dead. What a time.

I watched it with my father who was in Naval intelligence at the time.
He said JFK was screwing up and really wanted my mom to take us all to
the mountains in southern Virginia. He went to work shortly after that
and did not come home for almost 2 weeks. He looked 10 years older
when he got home.

If JFK had not been assassinated, this legacy would have come out
differently. I think his chance for reelection was 50:50 at best. That
is why he was in Dallas in the first place. He was losing the south
and that used to be where the Democrats were.
http://www.presidentelect.org/e1960.html

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