Guns of august to compete with free masons on military bases?

Kennedy had the book placed in every single Officers’ Club on US military bases all over the world.154

Bundy wrote a book titled The Pattern of Responsibility in 1951, an anthology of speeches and statements by Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who happened to be the father-in-law of his brother Bill Bundy. At one point, Kennedy considered Arthur Schlesinger for national security adviser, but instead he chose McGeorge Bundy, who, looking back later, thought the president was looking for someone he felt comfortable with and would be more “acceptable to what was then called the establishment.”159 Two weeks after the election, Bundy presented Kennedy with his first major foreign policy decision—‌what to do about the CIA plans to topple Fidel Castro from power in Cuba that he had talked briefly about with Eisenhower. The Cuban dictator came into power by defeating the US-friendly and mafia-owned dictator Fulgencio Batista and had begun to align himself with the Soviet Union. The CIA plans had started as simple small-scale infiltration and sabotage operations inside Cuba and had grown to an amphibious invasion of the island with an army of 1,500 Cuban refugees. They would face Castro’s army of 25,000 soldiers and 250,000 militi