CUBAN LESSON STILL UNLEARNED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500440003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 23, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2004/01/16 :
BRISTOL, TENN.
HERALD-COURIER
m. 21,798
S. 27, 56
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Date: OCT
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' Richafd M. Nixon has written an article
for a national magazine in which he attacks
with earnestness born of experience an
alarming drift in American foreign affairs.
His subject is Cuba. It is close to Nixon's
heart, for it provided John F. Kennedy.with :1
campaign ammunition in 1960 that may well
have swung many votes his way.,
Since the former vice-president left of. -i
fice, Cuba has pre-occupied us, and given us
the greatest eyeball-to-eyeball threat to our
;,:national honor and survival ever faced.
Nixon speaks of Castro's abrupt change
to communism shortly after the dictator as-
?; sumed power. He says that although State
Department career officers and'CIA officials
warned . that Castro was a Communist,
'liberal advisors to the late president were
too convincing. Castro was left alone to build
OUR OPINION
Cuban Lesson
Still Unlearned
a Communist state.
Summoned to the.White House after the
truly be our own,1'
By of Pigs disgrace, Nixon pictures Presi-
dent Kennedy as furious toward the ad-.'
visors, who again had held sway and- con-
vinced the chief-of-state that "unfavorable
world opinion" would accrue to the United
States if air support were given those dying
on the beach.
Kennedy called the facing of fathers of
men who died. because the liberals thought'
more of world opinion than success the i
worst moment of his life.
Kennedy is gone, and the lessons he
learned and put to use in the missile crisis
have fallen on deaf liberal ears in Washing-
ton. Nixon advocates a hard foreign policy.
But his view seems in the minority.
The Fulbrights speak of Cuba as a grim
but docile reality.
But they forget that reality in world af-
:fairs is what men make, not what is or-'.k
dained.
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