1. Jaqueline Bouvier Kennedy
He was a skilled negotiator and had a great understanding of foreign affairs. He probably is remembered most for his achievements in foreign policy and the famous Watergate scandal that forced him to resign his office. ... So Nixon froze wages and prices, cut federal spending, and announced that the United States would not convert foreign-held dollars to gold. ... Inflation and unemployment rose again and Nixon went to the US energy reserves, hoping to end its use of foreign oil. ...
RFK's book offers that the Intelligence Community in 1962 gave JFK reports that the Soviet Union would not make Cuba a military base, " the risk of retaliation from the United States would be too great to take the risk in this case- [p.6]. ... Why would the Intelligence Community think it out of the question that the Soviets wouldn't use Cuba as a base? ... When JFK met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko before the discovery of weapons in Cuba was exposed, JFK didn't tip his hand. ... The fact that they waited until their deception was discovered underscores their misc...
George Ball stated, " No matter how many hundred thousand white, foreign troops we deploy. No one has demonstrated of whatever size can win a guerrilla war- which is at the same time a civil was between Asians- in jungle terrain in the midst of a population that refuses cooperation to the white forces and provides a great intelligence advantage to the other side-(option 3). ...
We moved our patrols out from the LZ and captured intelligence from deserters of the NVA and were cut off from the rest of A- Company (www.nvo.org/vv98/other/010031.htm, 2001.). ... The Vietnam War was the first war in the history of the United States to be fought on foreign and domestic soil at the same time. The only difference was that the foreign war was being fought with the u...
In the foreign relations field most of the situations are more likely to be accordant with the variable sum-game. ... They consisted of America's best and brightest people who helped in various ways such as providing intelligence briefings, to editing Kennedy's letters, to arguing over the best course of action, EX-COMM proved to be a circumstantial way to manage the crisis. ...
