John F Kennedy National Historic Site

Yesterday one of the readers of GEopolar wrote a long post asking," What was so great about JFK?" Let's face the facts, death always produces memories that are larger in death than in life. EVen the worst person in the world sometimes gets a break when they leave for the great beyond. But, I wanted to answer some of his questions, because unlike him, I was alive when Kennedy was president and when he was assasinated. His questions were not taken personally. Although, I loved Kennedy, and the... Read Full Story

Robert McNamara, who served as US defence secretary during the Vietnam war and the Cuban Missile Crisis, has died aged 93. Mr McNamara, who served under presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson, was also an architect of the US policy of nuclear deterrence. After leaving the Pentagon he became president of the World Bank. His wife Diana said he had suffered failing health for some time and died in his sleep at home in Washington DC. Before taking up the post as Pentagon chief in 1961... Read Full Story

The fallout of President Kennedy's decisions during the Cuban Missile Crisis have been lauded for decades as the pinnacle of presidential leadership--though for Kennedy, those thirteen days in October seemed anything but. Pressured by the majority of his advisors--including Generals Maxwell Taylor, Curtis LeMay, and National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy--to use airstrikes and a full-scale invasion of Cuba, President Kennedy kept a level head at the brink of nuclear war to suggest a... Read Full Story

The fallout of President Kennedy's decisions during the Cuban Missile Crisis have been lauded for decades as the pinnacle of presidential leadership--though for Kennedy, those thirteen days in October seemed anything but. Pressured by the majority of his advisors--including Generals Maxwell Taylor, Curtis LeMay, and National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy--to use airstrikes and a full-scale invasion of Cuba, President Kennedy kept a level head at the brink of nuclear war to suggest a... Read Full Story

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