HIST 2476 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jules Feiffer, Cuban Missile Crisis, Gore Vidal
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Lots of scandals of private life not evaluations on fp. Gore vidal - who gets how much money from whom in order to do what. Then talked about sex, drugs and connections to organized crime. Had jfk not been so charismatic with the same policies he would not be remembered (debatable) U2 spy plane was shot down over soviet airspace (standard procedure) Pilot of the plane was supposed to commit suicide on capture, but he passed out before he could kill himself - powers. Kruschev said powers was alive, had confessed, and soviets got all the pictures. Ike admitted he lied necessary for national security wanted to keep budget manageable and used the flights to maintain military the way russia was. Americans were horrified that ike had lied. First time a president had to admit he"d lied. Kennedy accepted the domino theory in southeast asia. Kennedy believed it was america"s duty to keep the dominoes from falling everywhere.
