to his friend, red fai, and said, you know, it could happen to me and faye said, how could it happen to you? he said, well, if there were three things that happened. the first would have to be something like the bay of pigs which had happened and the next would be a second thing like the bay of pigs which was the cuban missile crisis. and at the time some of the generals were comparing him to neville chamberlin at munich. then he said if a third thing happened there could be a coup. in fact, after the limited test band treaty was signed there was an article in the new republic saying that the air force generals were mute tan news and referring to seven days in may. wow. for better or worse when you hear the name jfk you also think about marilyn monroe, the white house swimming pool, all the womanizing. you write that the president s relationship with jackie kennedy took on a sort of renaissance. you have a picture that i want to show everyone, put it up here. this is of jackie retu
let me finish tonight with this appeasement. it s what democracies buckle to when they buckled to adolf hitler s demand. it s what envelope chamberlain did at munich, give them the right to march across a border and take what land it wanted. appeasement, what many people believe was the reason for hitler s rise. it sent the signal that they would not fight, he could grab all he wanted, by failing to take a stand when it could have worked they opened the door a year later to poland, setting it up as an opportunity for hitler and stalin to simply greedily divide it up and take what they wanted for themselves. a person uses this word, so loaded with meaning and hatred,
effectively, the military should side with the protesters and against gadhafi. two libyan air force colonels flew jets to malta and asks for political asylum. the ak bars dors to many countries quit today, and libyan delegation to united nations seas is committeding genocide against his own people. as for the american response, secretary of state clinton released a strong statement saying the u.s. strongly condemns the violence in libya. now is the time to stop this unacceptable bloodshed. joining us now, my friend and host of hardball, chris matthews. thanks for your time tonight. you are so glad, you caught the weird. i was thinking three men in history identified with the umbrella. louie fill eep, from france. chamberlain at munich, and now moammar gadhafi.
i was thinking three men in history identified with the umbrella. louie fill eep, from france. chamberlain at munich, and now moammar gadhafi. three umbrella men. to have the hat and the umbrella and the truck all together, it is clear it was raining, but this goes down in all time as strangest. what do you think the u.s. is going to do about what s going on in libya? i don t know. i think he had his 40 years. even with nixon in 69. the sell by date is apparent. we thought gadhafi was going to be a success. i think the people saw that coming. i think we saw the same in egypt. once it is clear that the aging of the current president is not going to bring change but continuation, that s when they seem to strike, the people in the streets. they say oh, my god, if we don t strike now, we have another error coming of the same.
louie phillippe, from france. chamberlain at munich, and now moammar gadhafi. three umbrella men. to have the hat and the umbrella and the truck all together, it is clear it was raining, but this goes down in annals of all-time stranging statements. what do you think the u.s. is going to do about what s going on in libya? i don t know. look, i don t know. i think he s had his 40 years. he went in with nixon in 69. the sell-by date is apparent now. we thought gadhafi was going to be his successor. i think the people saw that coming. i think we saw the same in egypt. once it is clear that the aging of the current president is not going to bring change but continuation, that s when they seem to strike, the people in the streets. they say oh, my god, if we don t strike now, we have another error coming of the same.