Kennedy’s quid was to take our missiles out of Turkey, for Russia’s quo of removing them from Cuba. And now? Sure, we can swallow Venezuela and Cuba and Greenland, but even with trillions in defense spending we cannot digest them.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear so to speak. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
-Uncle Karl
For the record:
The following are the members of the inner circle of Kennedy advisors during the Cuban missile crisis:
Lyndon Johnson: representative of Texas oil interests
Dean Rusk: former president of the Rockefeller Foundation
Robert Mcnamara: former president of Ford Motors
Robert F. Kennedy: multi-millionaire from Boston
Douglass Dillion: a former president of Dillion Reed
Rosewell Gilpatrick: a corporation lawyer from New York
John McCone: a multimillionaire industrialist
Dean Acheson: a corporation lawyer and former Secretary of State
Robert Lovett: an investment banker with Brown Brothers, Harriman
General Maxwell Taylor, former chairman of Mexican Light and Power
George Ball: a Washington corporation lawyer, soon to join Lehman Brothers