The Importance of Resigning

When it was clear that the Cuban refugees, the brigade was losing disastrously. Kennedy said to one of his aides, I want to take the CIA shattered into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds. He ultimately sent 16,000 military advisors, mainly green parades who were forbidden under the rules of engagement from engaging in combat. Two weeks before he died, he signed a national security order, ordering all those troops home.