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"The treaty encountered heavy attack. from
former Chiefs of Suaff 'Arleigh Burke, Arthur
Radford and Nathan TWining. The Air Force Associati
n.
composed of military, former military and defense
contractors, came out against it. "1
The American University` Speech-followed bya his reexamination
of. the. Vietnamese policy (to be discussed later). - completely
fulfilled the conditions set forth by President Kennedy for
a take-over to happen on his .watch. In fact, President Kennedy
was doing his job right, and he very well knew that doing his
-
job right in Cold War American might cost his life.
"...when he saw Nixon after the Bay of Pigs
he said. 'If I do the right kind of a job,
I don't know whether I am going to be here
four years from now. ' Nor could anyone interest
him much in details of personal protection.
'If someone is going to kill me, he would
say, 'they are going to kill
Kennedy's Quest for Peace Dies with Him
In any event, when President Kennedy was no longer on watch,
the quest for peace was crushed. D.F. Flemming, the distinguished
scholar on the Cold War, described this critical peace-making
K
phase of President Cennedy and the abrupt end "which was the cons-
equence of his assassination:
"Fortunately, we had in President Kennedy at
a new turning point in history a leader with both
vision and courage. He had made certain that
there. were no missile gaps against us. He had
won the acclaim of the West by the way he success-
fully played showdown unuclear politics in the 1952
Cuban missile crisis. He had faced the last of
man's ultimate decisions on earth.
"Then, in the summer of 1963, Kennedy turned his
face resolutely toward life and unmistakably
-55-
1. Sorensen, Theodore C., op. cit. pp. 738-739.
2. Schlesinger, Jr. Arthur M. op. cit. p. 675.
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