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The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare the strategic, logistical, and political problems that doomed the invasion, but also how the still-green President John F. Kennedy scrambled to keep the U.S. from entering into a full conflict with Cuba. Robert Dallek

History Conflict CIA Political Problems President Dramatic Harrowing Entering Bay Details John Logistical John F. Kennedy Invasion Only Lay Also Operation Cuba Pigs How Official Scrambled Doomed Bare Full Strategic Filled Keep Kennedy

In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine. Robert Dallek

Son First Revolution Sympathy Thomas Thomas Jefferson Presidential Would Indian Outset Put French French Revolution Because Contest Opponents His Candidate Warned Who Jefferson Expressed

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history. Robert Dallek

History Political Enough Characteristic Familiar American American History

Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman. Robert Dallek

Despite Harry System Lincoln Truman American Flaws Produced Electoral Two

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings. Robert Dallek

Learning Rich Our Favorite Scandals About Seems Parlor Sport Yearnings America Egalitarian Famous Public Flaws Satisfy

Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value of such institutions and the federal appropriations that support them. Robert Dallek

Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism, to build up the American military power to assure our national security against any conceivable threat. Robert Dallek

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Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates promising economic relief through free and unlimited coinage of silver. Robert Dallek

Political Free Late Enrich Saw Unlimited Markets Relief Promising Silver Small Economic Through Candidates Expense Bankers Manipulating Themselves Farmers

The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and Churchill are meeting face to face in this war. Robert Dallek

I think the most important thing that comes out of the meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt in early 1942 is a commitment on Roosevelt's part to fight Europe first. To struggle first against Germany and put Japan and the Pacific as a secondary theatre in the conflict. And this is what Churchill was after. Robert Dallek

Struggle Fight Commitment Conflict Theatre First Important Think Secondary Meeting Churchill Out Part Put Between Most Most Important Thing Important Thing Germany The Most Important After Pacific Against Japan Roosevelt Europe Thing Early

McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who'd had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of the Harvard faculty. But he was also arrogant and looked upon all sorts of people and politicians as not to be taken all that seriously. Robert Dallek

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The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and an inability to renew the country's hope. Robert Dallek

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Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery. Robert Dallek

Dignity Safety Political Will Nation Distortion Charged Demagoguery Most Particularly Terrain Policy Vulnerable Dealing Does Always Foreign Foreign Policy Subjects

From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States. Robert Dallek

Problem Action Military Settle Took States Had He Cuban Without Been Office January Moment Military Action United United States Eager Kennedy

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency. Robert Dallek

Voting Presidency True Concealing Tradition Condition American Public Medical

It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals. Robert Darnton

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I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian. Robert Darnton

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