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«Timing is everything».

When Admiral Arleigh A. Burke stated, "I don’t think that russia will dare start a general nuclear war, because she would be destroyed," Dwight D. Eisenhower was still President. When this and other provocative quotes appeared in print around the world, however, John F. Kennedy was President and Commander- in-Chief, which put a new complexion on a single newspaper interview".

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MUZZLING ADMIRAL BURKE*

By: Elias P. Demetracopoulos


On the night of 16-17 April 1961, when the relatively young President needed the advice of the armed forces as the Bay of Pigs invasion was turning into an unmitigated fiasco, the tension between President Kennedy and Admiral Burke was palpable.

As told by Admiral Burke’s biographer, the late E.B. Potter, in the early-morning hours of 17 April, President Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, in white tie and tails, along with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lyman Lemnitzer and Admiral Burke, in dress uniforms with medals, left the East Room, where the annual Congressional Reception had just concluded, headed for the Oval Office.

There, Richard M. Bissell of the CIA informed President Kennedy that although the situation was bad, it "could still take a favorable turn if the President would authorize sending in aircraft from the carrier."

"Burke concurred," wrote Potter. "Let me take two jets and shoot down the enemy aircraft," he urged. But President Kennedy said "No," and reminded them that he had said "over and over again" that he would not commit U.S. forces to combat. Apparently, he did not want the world to find out what it already knew, that the whole expedition had been conceived, planned, and armed by the United States.

According to Potter, "Burke suggested sending in a destroyer. Whereupon Kennedy explodes. ‘Burke.’ He snapped, ‘I don’t want the United States involved in this.’ ‘All in all, Mr. President,’ Burke snapped back, ‘but we are involved."’

All in all, not a pleasant exchange.

Admiral Burke continued as Chief of Naval Operations for three-and-a-half more months. On 1 August 1961, having completed an unprecedented third term, he relinquished his office to Admiral George W. Anderson. The change of command took place at the U.S. Naval Academy, where Admiral Burke had begun his naval service 42 years earlier.


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Mr Demetracopoulosis a Greek journalist based in Washington, D.C. Among his many exposés was the so called "Greek Connection" to the Wartergate break-in and his assertion that the burglars were searching for evidence gathered by the Democratic national Committe concerning $549,000 in illegal campaign contributions made secretely by the greek intelligence agency KYP to the 1968 Nixon-Agnew campaign.

*Selected paragraphs from an article which appeared in PROCEEDINGS January 2000



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