The early editorial cheers that accompanied the anti-Castro rebels had subsided, along with the chorus of dismay that followed the news of disaster. Last week it was time for the inquest, and the U.S. press turned to the gloomy business of explaining what went wrong.
We Americans, wrote C. L. Sulzberger in the New York Times, "look like fools to our friends, rascals to our enemies and incompetents to the rest." The Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston was equally embarrassed: "For the first time in his life, John F. Kennedy has taken a...
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