NIXON'S BOO-BOO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200100007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 25, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 1999/09/16 : CIA-RDP ;6899
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HARRISBURG, PA.
PATRIOT-NEWS
MORNING 40,942
SUNDAY 151,462
MAR 2 5 1962
Nixons Boo-Boo
ashington Bureau
By. JULES WITCOVER
01 The Sunday Patriot-News
"OH, mine adversary had written a
book"-Job;i .5.
THE WHOLE DemocrAtie.,`;f arty,
along with President Kennedy, can be
excused if they qu to th s passage from
arguing that the original decision to use
force was right, bu`t 'that k e n n e d y
doomed the mission by failing to give
adequate air support.
The Democrats, particularly the lib-
erals among them, are likely to take
..the fine that Kennedy's mistake was
wiyot in failing to use'enough force, but
the Bible in light of the chief contro- fn resorting to force at all in
of U.S. treaty commitments.
versy growing out of former. Vice.
violation
,.- ..
had is very argument in one of the cam-
Nixon's acc ,sation th ~y
paign TV debates will not deter them
sed a [ briefin on t e impending
Cuban -invasion inR camps gh oratory from using it. After all, Nixon says in
the new book he was forced by Kennedy
shapes up as an election year bonus for to take that position, in order to pro-
the Democrats. y k Q tect the Cuban plans "at all costs."
THE KENNEDY Administration's
P.; ALREADY THE ADMISSION by
handling of the affair figured to occupy Nixon that he had to' go to the "other
a major portion of epublican criticism ?
tY extreme of what he really believed is
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cisms that Democrats peddled so hard
from former A Director Alen 'Kuiles, I,; , ? ,pan
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^ he- they argue; he could have done so sim-
yond a e fact t~46Q A ply by taking a noncommittal stand.
had tt it
11 ~the_~~sen ower_~1d But it was irl character, Democrats
minis traiin. would have the voter believe, that he
'"SIM ly, it records in Nixon's own chose to go all the way, attacking Ken-
words an admission of his ."w ,nedy., for advocating a "wrong and ir-
v2L% m~ent in they . h-level discussions . responsible" course that.' it turned n?t
leading to the aecision'to armaandt train Nixon himself had advocated-not in
the Cuban exiles. debate,,. but at the highest level of na-
Third, it enipha$iies Nixon's own tional decision-making.
positi axt the decision to launch they
DEMOCRATS GENERALLY h a v e
anti-Castro attempt was correct, and
f c < considered the Cuban fiasco their big-
that the .~rr__was ot
.
Fit fill but in not cnmm;tincr nnitn. gest campaign problem in the coming
=
n = -6tfgr`dssiottal elections. Now they are
wi.
bP inning to, feel-they will be hurt all
right, but not so much as they had ex-
yrntl'1'_niderable fodder forte dam-
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paign i7i`t1i t' 's fall, with }2epuhlicans book.
pected before their adversary wrote this
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