and yet in the days after the fall of saigon, gerald ford s numbers actually went up. his approval rating increased from 39 to 40%. a month later by the end of may 1975. where it surged to 51%. so gerald ford, president ford oversaw an international embarrassment, but americans gave him a pass. they weren t done with him just yet. something very similar happened during the john f. kennedy administration. kennedy was in charge from the bay of pigs invasion which he single-handedly turned into a disaster. that disaster made fidel castro a national hero in cuba. it drove cuba even closer to the soviet union. all of this happened before the human missile crisis. this was not a good thing for anybody. and yet despite that, jfk s a up approval rating went up. so the bay of pigs happened in
numbers as measured by gallop actually went up. his approval rating increased from 39% to 40%. a month later by the end of may 1975, ford s approval ratings surged to 51%. so gerald ford, president of ford, oversaw an international embarrassment but americans gave him a pass. they weren t done with him just yet. something very similar happened during the john f. kennedy administration. kennedy was in charge from the bay of pigs invasion april 1961 which he singlehandedly turned into a disaster. that disaster made fidel castro a national hereflo cuba and drove hero in cuba and drove cuba closer to the soviet union. this happened during the cuban missile crisis. that wasn t a good thing for anybody, and yet despite that, jfk s approval ratings did not drop, in fact, they went up from 78% to 83% in the days after that disaster. the bay of pigs happened in the first year of the kennedy administration.
all right that is going to do it for us tonight. thanks for being here on the big news night. i m particle grateful when you try to spend some of that night with us. we ll be back again tomorrow night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening rachel. president biden s going to address the nation tomorrow about the warren afghanistan. which is something we ve actually never seen before. i ve been looking back a lot with my partial memory of events, researching april, may 1975, the end of the vietnam war. presidential route for never said a word. there was no press conference,
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evacuees who had already been to guam. this was from their on bound arrival at their next stop, which was indian town gap, pennsylvania. this was may 1975. the government opened up a fourth military base for vietnam refugees at indian town gap, pennsylvania. and robert hager was there when the first of them arrived from the island of guam. reporter: this is pennsylvania dutch country. the people here aren t accustomed to large numbers of strangers, and they re apprehensive about the refugees. but today, when the first planeload of refugees arrived in harrisburg, misgivings were temporarily put aside. it was a big, happy welcome from several thousand people. pennsylvania s governor milton schaap who earlier had expressed some doubts of his own. you come from a land where most of us are either immigrants ourselves or the sons or grandsons or granddaughters