On Aug 26, 3:01*pm, "nom=de=plume" wrote:
Nope... Eisenhower. Read it and weep...

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/jupiter.htm

"Frogwatch" wrote in message

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Jack Kennedy CAUSED the Cuban missile crisis by putting Jupiter
missiles in Turkey less than 100 miles from the Soviet Union. *Anybody
with more than 2 neurons would have expected the Soviets to respond in
kind. *Guess what, the agreement for resolving the crisis was that the
Soviets remove their missiles AND the USA would remove the missiles
from Turkey. *I'd say Krushev was the hero in that Crisis by backing
down. *I hate thinking good of the Soviets but in that case they were
right.
And the Bay of Pigs, what kind of moron would agree to such a thing
AND then not support it once it was going? *Pure Kennedy cowardice.

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Nom=de=Plume

The President is Commander in Chief, those missiles in Turkey need
never have been deployed. Kennedy could have stopped it at any time
but he stupidly went along with it due to his own "missile gap"
rhetoric in the 1960 campaign. Furthermore, Kennedy knew there was no
missile gap as did Nixon (this had been revealed by direct photo-
reco). However, Nixon could not reveal there was no missile gap
without violating security. Thus, Kennedy had a hand in greatly
increasing the arms race. Another reason he went along with the
Turkey missiles is because he was afraid of Curtis Lemay who was truly
crazed. Lemay really did want a nuke war with the Soviets and he
thought Kennedy was a wimp.
So, Kennedy caused the Cuban Missile Crisis because he HAD NO COJONES
to stand up to Lemay. Seriously, the cowardice of Kennedy nearly
caused a nuke war. The only person who actually will look good to
historians in this will be Krushev.