There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.


State Department press conference 21 April 1961, following the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. 1965, 2002. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Houghton Mifflin ISBN 1-57912-449-6 ISBN 978-1-57912-449-6, p. 262.


There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.