The Brink

Walter runs into Joanne in Tel Aviv and tries to use her new position to his advantage. Zeke and Glenn, who are being held hostage by Martin and Vanessa, agree to participate in role-playing games in hopes of being released. Kittredge shares a revolutionary dream with Alex.

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Wall St. firms as well as progressives and intellectuals, was labeled the

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At defense, Kennedy brought in a civilian outsider, Robert McNamara

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from Eisenhower. McNamara was appalled by what he found:

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find out that there was quite a huge difference:

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Kennedy was briefed on Eisenhower's invasion plan for Cuba by Allen Dulles

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3 days before the operation, in April 1961, 8 US B-26 bombers flown by Cuban exiles

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Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, in an embarrassing prequel to Colin Powell's

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Almost 1600 Cuban exiles arrived at the Bay of Pigs in 7 ships, 2 of them

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Kennedy refused this support, as he warned he would, fearing a Soviet counter move

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said it was reprehensible, almost criminal, to pull the rug out.

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Heads up America Let's stand, be brave, keep our defenses high

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through the statements, detailed discussions on not to conceal responsibility,

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they were military men, their opinions on military matters were worth a damn.

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the Joint Chiefs sons of bitches and those CIA bastards, threatening to

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After the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy had contempt for the Joint Chiefs. He dismissed them as

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The mood was dark when Kennedy travelled to Vienna to meet Khrushchev

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had fled through the open borders seeking a better life in west Germany.

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We have a much longer history with Germany. We have seen how quickly

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that we could crush Germany, in a few minutes.

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Kennedy's parting comment to Kruschev was: I see it's going to be a very cold winter.

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The source of world troubling tension is Moscow, not Berlin.

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The Warsaw pact nations responded in dramatic fashion.

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Despite the US's nuclear superiority the Air Force wanted to increase

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And the next week, a 50+ mega ton bomb, over 3,000 times as powerful

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in the summer and fall of '61 as the nation conducted an extended conversation

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In hindsight, the construction of the monstrous Berlin wall actually diffused

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In another part of the world however, Kennedy had given his commitment

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up-to-now bungled assasination attempts on Castro.

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Girls delightful in Cuba. stop. Could send you prose poems

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This plan included staging a Cuban government hijacking, shooting down of a

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In january, the US coerced Latin American countries to suspend

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The last one in october with 7500 marines set to participate was codenamed Ortsac

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As a young congressman he'd visited Vietnam in 1951 during the debacle

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he had already pointed out the contradiction of supporting the

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Embracing Eisenhower's dominoe theory Kennedy was now insisting that Vietnam

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and painting a bleak picture pressed for a much larger US involvement.

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The troops will march in, the bands will play, the crowds will cheer, and

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And he did approve his generals' other recommendations expanding military involvement

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contractors to flock to this new honeypot of enterprise.

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Vietnam in its early stages was sometimes referred as a CIA war.

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