Chuck Todd
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Exiles captured.
And it wasn't because of cowardice.
Because here's something that's always bugged me.
It was because the assumptions were wrong from the start.
And bug's not the wrong word, but it's an observation you made about Obama.
The aftershocks, we're still living with them.
And I'm curious if you've noticed it about Trump.
The consequences don't stop there.
You know what?
You know what you never hear about Donald Trump?
The failure ends up strengthening Castro, shapes how Nikita Khrushchev sees Kennedy.
Childhood friend came to visit him today.
That perception carries forward.
Guy he went to college with, came to visit at Mar-a-Lago today.
A year later, Soviet missiles in Cuba.
They test the young president again.
Person he grew up with, he went golfing with today.
The most dangerous moment in the Cold War may not have ever happened, the Cuban Missile Crisis, if not for the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
And I don't say that as any judgment.
It's just interesting.