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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
Check out the chart on the right. Underneath the section labeled commanders, whose name is listed? If history is going to credit Reagan for the release of the 52 Iranian hostages, even though Carter did all of the work, then Kennedy takes the fall for The Bay of Pigs. He did, afterall, oversee the original ground troops plan, the changes to it, and then approved the final plan that failed.
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But history doesn't change the fact that it was Eisenhowers plan of action and he who alloted the money to put the Bay Of Pigs into place. Nice try.