| − | After stealing the 1960 election, [[John F. Kennedy]] failed on Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, so he later told reporter James Reston, "We have trouble making our power look credible and Vietnam looks like the place to do it.” After losing the 1964 election, [[Barry Goldwater}} told [[Lyndon Johnson]] to stay out of the war or win it. The mainstream media led by [[CBS]] reporter [[Walter Cronkite]] beat the drums for entering the war, and after the United States entered, they switched sides, the same games that they applied during Iraq War II. | + | After stealing the 1960 election, [[John F. Kennedy]] failed on Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, so he later told reporter James Reston, "We have trouble making our power look credible and Vietnam looks like the place to do it.” After losing the 1964 election, [[Barry Goldwater]] told [[Lyndon Johnson]] to stay out of the war or win it. The mainstream media led by [[CBS]] reporter [[Walter Cronkite]] beat the drums for entering the war, and after the United States entered, they switched sides, the same games that they applied during Iraq War II. |