A particular JFK speech

[Ian Livingston]

National security. Press privileges. Presidents. Invasions of
sovereign nations. All that jive.
Sure. Most likely. Nobody tells the truth quite like the American press.

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 12/19/2011 1:30 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>>
>> one last point which is probably familiar to everyone here:
>> Kennedy as a Catholic, could not be a Mason.  Longstanding enmity there.
>>
>> (Church obviously hugely in the wrong vis a vis the St Bartholomew's
>> Day Massacre et al...
>> Truman, 33rd degree Mason, dropping atom bomb not exactly a man of peace
>> either)
>>
>> So when he said "we" don't like secret societies, secret handshakes,
>> rituals where a giant papier mache owl is burned and cockamamie stuff
>> like that, he obviously wasn't speaking for everyone, was he?
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> He was saying, in kind of an oblique way, that we don't like having
> information withheld from us, of being kept in the dark about things.
>
> He followed with a big HOWEVER-- sometimes secrecy is desirable.
>
> The Bay of Pigs invasion had just failed miserably. Part of the reason was
> that enough information was revealed in the press that Fidel had advance
> knowledge of the date of the landing.
>
> He was asking that the Press show more restraint with respect to information
> that the Cold War enemy could use.
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-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant