NIXON WANTS JFK 'TO DO WHATEVER IS NECESSARY' TO DRIVE SOVIETS OUT OF CUBA
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On April 20, 1963, former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon called on the Kennedy administration "to do whatever is necessary to force the Soviet beachhead" from Cuba.
Mr. Nixon was speaking to the American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting here in the Nation's Capital, and according to Cecil Holland of The Star, scored "the record of President Kennedy's administration at home and abroad."
The former VP said...
"The United States cannot tolerate the...existence of a Soviet military...base 90 miles from our shores."
JFK+50 NOTE
President Kennedy spoke to the ASNE the previous day. He told the editors that an invasion of Cuba by the United States "would be a mistake." April 1963 marked two years since the failed U.S. sponsored invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
SOURCE
"U.S. Decision on Cuba Is Demanded by Nixon," by Cecil Holland, The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., April 20, 1963, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
