Day after miserable day, they marched, rode, shot, and paraded under the scorching, Texas sun. ... By mid, June they were ready, and Teddy and his beloved Rough Riders boarded trains for Tampa, Florida and the Cuban invasion. ... All shots fell short. ...
That would have seemed even weaker, especially right before the mid-term elections. ... And then a U-2 was shot down over Cuba on Saturday October 27th. ... Horror by Khrushchev because he knew we would immediately think he had ordered the plane shot down, and horror by the Kennedy administration that they would have to figure out what to do about it. ... Earlier in the week the EXCOMM had chosen a contingency plan in the event that a U-2 was shot down; bomber and fighter planes would destroy a surface-to-air missile site [p.36]. ...
