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Kennedy and Military Take Over
It may seem irresponsible to conceive of a military plot
to eliminate Kennedy, and ensure continuation of the Cold War.
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However, we must realize for one thing that Kennedy was not only
becoming more difficult to control, but he himself, in his
position of great authority, and from a vantage point at which
there was much information unavailable to us, did not regard
a military take-over as implausible. We have an excellent artic-
ulation of his feeling on this matter in a discussion with
Paul B. Fay, Jr. 1 This colloquy occurred one summer weekend
in 1962 on the Honey Fitz, the Kennedy yacht. The President
was asked what he thought of the possibility of a military take-
over in the United States. The discussion grew out of the book
Seven Days in Mayby Fletcher Knebel and Charles W: Bailey.
President Kennedy said: "It's possible. It could happen
in this country, but the conditions would have to be just right.
The conditions the President outlined were as follows:
(1) The country would be led by a young President,
(2) There would be a Bay of Pigs,
(3) Military criticism of the President would follow,
(4) Then if there was another Bay of Pigs the military
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1. Fay., Paul B. Jr., The Pleasure of His Company, p. 190.
New York, Harper & Row, 1963.
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