it s not on the ban. neil: speaking out this early, to be fair to barack obama, he indicated it was something he felt passionate about regardless of the timetable. this is one of the moments. but normally presidents, former presidents, don t do this. they wait awhile. eisenhower holds the record with john kennedy. he personally let kennedy know how he felt about the bay of pigs fiasco. he told him that personally. didn t say it publicly. that s the closest example how to handle this sort of thing. others wait a good number of months. ford, you know, criticizing carter three months after he was in office over an assualt agreement that never materialized. carter waited seven months with ronald reagan. normally it s months. in the case of george bush jr., nothing for years. but what do you make of it? and great generosity. i mean, look at nixon.
and they were a threat to the united states with the weapons. they put a man in space, and that suggested they were on our tail. within just ten days or so period, kennedy had two black eyes. he had the soviet union putting someone in space, and he had the bay of pigs fiasco. the bay of pigs fiasco has become a cautionary tale for any president for failure. a little known story of how that mission unfolded told by insiders and fighters on the ground and how kennedy used the lessons from that war to avoid world war iii. we ll be right back.
seemingly inexperienced, particularly in foreign affairs, and so kennedy thought, gosh, i don t want to just get rid of all the people at defense and cia that had been up to snuff on the most modern and recent intelligence information. hence john f. kennedy inherited the bay of pigs invasion plan from the eisenhower administration. they had already begun a plan to send a group of cia sponsored cubans into cuba with the thought if they landed on cuban soil, the cuban people would rise up against fidel castro. and jfk somehow early on decided he was going to continue that plan. when we landed i was in the last boat to arrive there.
united states have to understand the culture of the world and the global economy? and i ll just simply put it this way, john kennedy, i can still hear that german phrase and the german people went wild. i can still hear jacqueline kennedy speaking at the orange bowl, an entire speech after the bay of pigs fiasco, she gave an entire speech in spanish to american citizens, and they loved her for it. but you re talking history. bill, 2016, will this work in the primaries? it may work in the primary. i would hope that enough republicans with any sense would realize what s going on here. reverend al, let s talk a little recent history. 2004 george bush got 40% of the latino vote. that s correct. in 2008 john mccain got 31%. mitt romney got 27 in 2012 and
and taking responsibility. he did it on civil rights when you had rioting in civil rights demonstrators beaten, and he had not properly prepared and planned for that eventuality. he blamed himself for that. self other instances during the kennedy administration when he did that. i think americans respect that. they admire it when a president does it. and when a president obfuscates it actually intensifies the problems he is dealing with. neil: sometimes as the press conference went on and i was listening very, very long appearings. i know he is a great lawyer and has legalees responses he could benefit from a short, terse jfk remark, and i m reminded of this, after the bay of pigs fiasco and then-president kennedy talk about it. this is sport sweet. there s an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and