I’m always interested in what people have to say about some of the back story going on. Several people wrote to say that both the Bay of Pigs & Viet Nam got started under Eisenhower, not Kennedy. This is very true. Kennedy still made the major mistakes involved. In the case of Cuba, the original plan called for both Navy & Air Force support of the Cuban assault force. Kennedy cancelled this support, despite testimony that the assault would fail without said support and then ordered the assault anyway.
Viet Nam was much bigger and had a cast of characters going back to the Truman administration. We mucked it up big time over there. Kennedy’s mistake was to increase troop levels and support levels, but even worse, to change the focus from training to operations. Most of Kennedy’s contemporaries considered him a babe in the woods. If he hadn’t been assassinated and had won re-election in ‘64 (a probability) I wonder how Viet Nam would have turned out. Differently? The same?
As for Chapter 15, I had a few emails about some other great cars for dating from this time frame. Like the Galaxie 500, the Chevy Impala was full size, as was the Olds Delta 88, with that great Rocket 88 engine. Brings back some great memories!