{"id":2083,"date":"1960-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1960-12-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2083"},"modified":"1960-12-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1960-12-07T00:00:00","slug":"1431271960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/12\/07\/1431271960\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/7\/1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;DEC 7, 1960: President [Dwight D.] \u00a0Eisenhower responds to [Secretary of State] Doug Dillon&#8217;s December 2, memo. He grants approval for reorganization of the Cuba program, but wants to clarify that; \u2018Mr. [Ambassador Whiting] Willauer should have a position directly subordinate to the Secretary of State for so long as Cuba remains a critical problem in our foreign relations. There should be no doubt as to the authority of the Special Assistant in the State department (Willauer) to coordinate\u2026activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Bay of Pigs Invasion\/Playa Giron: A Chronology of Events,&#8221; The National Security Archive, NSArchive2.gwu.edu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;DEC 7, 1960: President [Dwight D.] \u00a0Eisenhower responds to [Secretary of State] Doug Dillon&#8217;s December 2, memo. He grants approval for reorganization of the Cuba program, but wants to clarify that; \u2018Mr. [Ambassador Whiting] Willauer should have a position directly subordinate to the Secretary of State for so long as Cuba remains a critical problem [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/12\/07\/1431271960\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 12\/7\/1960<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2081,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/12\/02\/1411221960\/","url_meta":{"origin":2083,"position":0},"title":"12\/2\/1960","author":"AmarkData","date":"December 2, 1960","format":false,"excerpt":"\"DEC 2, 1960: Acting Secretary of State [C Douglas] Dillon informs President [Dwight D.] Eisenhower that the 5412 Group has decided that a senior official in the State Department and a senior officer in CIA should work full time to better organize the government's \u2018total program with respect to Cuba.\u2019\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2061,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/10\/16\/12110161960\/","url_meta":{"origin":2083,"position":1},"title":"10\/16\/1960","author":"AmarkData","date":"October 16, 1960","format":false,"excerpt":"\"OCT 16 and 21, 1960: [John F.] Kennedy again attacks Eisenhower's Cuba policy: \u2018If you can't stand up to [Fidel] Castro, how can you be expected to stand up to [Soviet Union\u2019s First Secretary Nikita] Khrushchev?\u2019 And five days later: \u2018We must attempt to strengthen the non-Batista democratic anti-Castro forces\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2055,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/09\/30\/1159301960\/","url_meta":{"origin":2083,"position":2},"title":"9\/30\/1960","author":"AmarkData","date":"September 30, 1960","format":false,"excerpt":"\"30.09.60 The Department of State announced that it had issued an advisory to American citizens \u2018to refrain from traveling to Cuba unless there were urgent reasons to make the trip.\u2019\u201d \"Dwight D. 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He expresses his unhappiness about the general situation: \u2018Are we being sufficiently imaginative and bold, subject to not letting our hand appear; and ...are we doing the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2420,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2001\/01\/31\/5091312001\/","url_meta":{"origin":2083,"position":5},"title":"1\/31\/2001","author":"AmarkData","date":"January 31, 2001","format":false,"excerpt":"\"31\/01\/2001 We are going to maintain our sanctions on Cuba, [Secretary of State] Colin Powell said to his Mexican counterpart, [Secretary of Foreign Affairs] Jorge G. Casta\u00f1eda.\u201d [Con Embargo] \u201cGeorge W. Bush (R). 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