In the July 2nd issue of Time Magazine, there is a series of articles on President John F. Kennedy. Within one entitled, "Warrior For Peace", writer David Talbot has the following observation by Kennedy observer, a few weeks after the Bay of Pigs. See if you see what I do.
.....Weeks after the Cuba fiasco, J.F.K. was still steaming, recalled his friend Assistant Navy Secretary Paul (Red) Fay years later in his memoir, The Pleasure of His Company. "Nobody is going to force me to do anything I don't think is in the best interest of the country," the President told his friend, over a game of checkers at the Kennedy-family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. "We're not going to plunge into an irresponsible action just because a fanatical fringe in this country puts so-called national pride above national reason. Do you think I'm going to carry on my conscience the responsibility for the wanton maiming and killing of children like our children we saw
here this evening? Do you think I'm going to cause a nuclear exchange--for what? Because I was forced into doing something that I didn't think was proper and right? Well, if you or anybody else thinks I am, he's crazy."