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Kennedy was not ready on day 1
Ironically I just was reading in Newsweek this morning about how JFK was misled into the Bay of Pigs disaster because he was a rookie. Instead of listening to the existing national security structure, he was taken in by the "freebooting swells at the CIA - who promptly led him into the Bay of Pigs". (Evan Thomas,"In the Shadow of Bush", Jan.28, 2008) Thomas' point was that, unlike Bush, JFK was able to learn from his mistake, but this incident is a glaring example of the kind of terrible mistake that inexperienced presidents are prone to make.