In the sobering aftermath of the calamitous Cuban invasion, it was no consolation for Jack Kennedy to hear nagging reminders from U.S. liberals that Chester Bowles, his Under Secretary of State, had opposed the plan all along. The very fact that the whole country seemed to have been told about Bowles's stand was especially annoying. The more he thought about it, the more reasons the President found for wanting to shift Bowles far from the Washington scene.
As State's No. 2 man, Bowles was supposed to be goading the department's sluggish bureaucracy into action, leaving Boss Dean Rusk free to...
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