situation” would force the president to carry through to the end they wished: “[We] did not want to raise these issues—in an [undecipherable word] discussion—which might only harden the decision against the type of action we required. We felt that when the chips were down—when the crisis arose in reality, any action required for success would be authorized rather than permit the enterprise to fail.”[50] But again, as Kennedy said, “They had me figured all wrong.”
