Abuse of Power by Presidents from John Kennedy to George Bush
Kennedy's number one incident of an abuse of power was probably the"Bay of Pigs" secret invasion into Cuba in April, 1961. The attempt tooverthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was a huge failure, and it was anembarrassment to both Kennedy and to the United States in the eyes of theworld. Kennedy did not consult the U.S. Congress prior to launching theprovocative attack, and hence, many felt it was an abuse of his power. Lyndon Johnson's biggest incidence of an abuse of power was most
weaponsto the Ayatollah in Iran, and secretly gave the money to the Contras inNicaragua. Ronald Reagan (unwittingly)allowed a secret cell of government to be established in hisadministration, by Oliver North and John Poindexter; they sold U. Navy had been attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats, and hetold Congress he needed authority to respond to that attack. So, in August, of 1964, Johnson claimed thatthe U. Subsequent insiderinformation has shown there was no attack by the North Vietnamese on U. Senate approved (except for 2 Senators) the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,which gave Johnson the authority to bomb North Vietnam. Richard Nixon was guilty of many abuses of power during the Watergatescandal, such as authorizing lies by his inner staff, authorizing breakinginto Daniel Ellsburg's office, and many more. The American military had forseveral years been providing "training" and "advisors" to the South Vietnamregime, and Lyndon Johnson, like several presidents before him, believedthat if the communists in North Vietnam, led by Ho Chi Minh, were allowedto take over all of Vietnam, then other Southeast Asian nations would fall,too, like a stack of dominos.
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