In every change of policy there's an element of perfidy. I don't
know whether to laugh or sob. There's a fine line between
courage and stupidity.
Illinois and the election were mine in sixty till Daley ordered
ballot tampering by his underworld clods. But in every change of
policy there's an element of perfidy:
the gangsters were rewarded with an inquisitor's decree when
Jack gave Justice to his brother Bob. There's a fine line
between courage and stupidity.
I planned the Cuban invasion meticulously, but the new
administration botched the job. In every change of policy
there's an element of perfidy:
the president blamed the CIA but postponed its demise out of
expediency so as not to improve the Republicans' odds. In the
absence of courage what's left is stupidity.
In the crime of the century Jack failed to consider every
contingency like an act of self-defense by my pals in Miami, The
Company, the mob. In every change of policy there's an element
of perfidy and a fine line between courage and stupidity. <>"An
Element of Perfidy": Late November 1963. The speaker is former
vice-president and failed presidential candidate Richard Nixon,
who as vice-president served as CIA White House action officer
for the proposed invasion of Cuba. The information on which this
poem is based is found in several of the secondary sources cited
in the endnotes of the ebook "JFK: Lines of Fire".
About the author:
"An Element of Perfidy" is reprinted from the ebook "JFK: Lines
of Fire" (Burlington, VT: http://PulpBits , 2003) and first
appeared in Prairie Winds (Mitchell, SD) n. 50, Spring 1996.
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