The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer [516]
508 “Authorities [the president] would…”: Chief of Naval Operations (Burke) to Commander in Chief, Atlantic (Dennison), telegram, Washington, D.C., April 18, 1961, 8:37 P.M., Naval Historical Center, area files, Bumpy Road materials, FRUS.
508 “Wounded should …”: ibid.
508 “Evacuation of…”: Commander in Chief, Atlantic (Dennison), to Chief of Naval Operations (Burke), telegram, Norfolk, Va., April 19, 1961, 2:01 A.M., Naval Historical Center, area files, Bumpy Road materials, FRUS.
508 “Burke, I don’t want…”: Wyden, p. 270. 508 as close to crying: CY, p. 123.
508 “We’ve got to do …”: Time file for RFK cover, Hugh Sidey material, LL interview with Hugh Sidey, CY, p. 123, and Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy (2000), p. 122.
509 “We are sincerely…”: Embassy in the Soviet Union to Department of State, Moscow, telegram, April 18, 1961, 2:00 P.M., Department of State, FRUS.
509 most crucial creations: Kennedy wrote in Why England Slept “The great advantage a democracy is presumed to have over a dictatorship is that ability and not brute force is the qualification for leadership. Therefore, if a democracy cannot produce able leaders, its chance for survival is slight.” WES, p. 182.
509 “to put the guerrillas…”: memorandum for the record, Washington, DC, May 16, 1961, Naval Historical Center, Bumpy Road materials, FRUS.
510 “God damn it”: “After Action Report on Operation Pluto, May 4, 1961,” “Report on Activities on Barbara J.,” p. 7, quoted in Chapman, “The Bay of Pigs,” p. 29.
510 “Am destroying all…”: CIA, memorandum prepared for the Cuban Study Group, Washington, D.C., May 3, 1961, NSC files, FRUS.
510 “to act or be judged …”: CY, p. 124.
511 looked at the Washington News: Wyden, p. 290.
511 “Soviet Cuban”: handwritten notes of President Kennedy during a meeting with Jose Miro Cardona, et al., re: Cuban situation, April 19, 1961, JKPPP.
511 “a landing of supplies …”: Kornbluh, p. 319.
511 “present situation in Cuba …”: Attorney General (Kennedy) to President Kennedy, memorandum, Washington, DC, April 19, 1961, FRUS.
512 “I hope …”: RKIHOW, p. 11.
512 “I understand that you advised …”: New York Times, May 28, 1961.
513 “When I took exception …”: notes on cabinet meeting, Washington, D.C., April 20, 1961, Yale University, Chester Bowles papers, FRUS.
513 plan to invade Cuba: Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense McNamara, memorandum, JCSM-278-61, Washington, D.C., April 26, 1961, FRUS.
513 “You people are so …”: quoted in Richard Goodwin, p. 187.
513 “Jackie walked …”: TR, p. 400.
514 As the pilots skimmed: LL interview with Stanley Montunnas, and Chapman, “The Bay of Pigs,” pp. 20-34.
514 “One of the intelligence men …”: ibid.
514 “We were all…”: LL interview with Stanley Montunnas.
515 “fucking brass hats”: SB, p. 114. For Kennedy’s view of the Joint Chiefs, see also ATD, p. 295.
515 putting his arm around him: RKHT, p. 295.
515 “Let’s go in …”: LL interview with Edward Kennedy.
515 “he’d rather be called …”: JFK discussion with General Lemnitzer at seventeenth meeting of Cuban inquiry, in Luis Aguilar, introduction, Operation Zapata: The “Ultrasensitive” Report and Testimony of the Board of Inquiry on the Bay of Pigs (1981), p. 331.
515 “Fuck!”: quoted in SB, p. 115.
516 He believed: RKIHOW, p. 245. There is no evidence that this took place.
516 Bissell, as the attorney: CIA, memorandum for the record prepared by McCone, “Discussion with Attorney General Robert Kennedy,” Washington, D.C., November 29, 1961, 9:00-10:20 A.M., FRUS.
517 “probability of being able …”: Dulles testimony to Cuban Study Group, Secret Eyes Only, PC.
517 Most of the brigade: Grayston L. Lynch, Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs (1998), p. 138.
517 “aircraft were probably…”: memorandum for the record, Washington, D.C., April 26, 1961, NSC files, FRUS.
518 “Men of all ages”: Juan Carlos Rodriguez, p. 194.
518 except into the swamps: Juan Carlos Rodriguez, p. 195.
518 When they turned back: ibid., and LL interview with Grayston Lynch, and Cuban Study Group to President Kennedy, memorandum