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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC 4 May 2017

    JFK, Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay and cigar, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 55 years ago today:pic.twitter.com/re3CnsBd8W

    9:21 AM - 4 May 2017
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      1. rrlse‏ @priusport 4 May 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        We wouldn't be here now if Lemay had had his way.

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      1. The Moochers Post‏ @TheMoochersPost 4 May 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Any credence to the rumor LeMay might have been part of the conspiracy to kill JFK? There is those recording of him really not liking JFK

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      1. DrD‏ @DrDourbine 4 May 2017
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        LeMay should’ve been a defendant at Nuremberg.

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      1. Don D.‏ @MayorMcDiF 5 May 2017
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        “Errr, General…is that a Negro over there?”

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      1. Dave Makichuk‏ @Majjinho 5 May 2017
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        LeMay must have known Jack was going down in the fall ...

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      1. Matthew Page‏ @N242DB 4 May 2017
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        LeMay's bombing campaigns save a million and a half Allied lives. Greatest air warrior of all time.

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      1. James Kaplan‏ @jckaplan 4 May 2017
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        5 months later LeMay & his cigar would be urging JFK to nuke Cuba.

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      1. Lionel Hutz, Esq.‏ @LionelEsq 4 May 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Your posts are always appreciated

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      1. Marc Posner‏ @mposner 4 May 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Back when Democrats still believed in American values....

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      1. Kevin Gregg‏ @KevinPaulGregg 4 May 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        JFK: "A nuclear blast like that will certainly kill many enemy soldiers." LEMAY: "And their brat kids and breeding wives, Mister President."

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      1. Rick Hopkins‏ @RickHopkins52 4 May 2017
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        LeMay was also George Wallace's running mate in 1968.

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      1. Headley Goforth‏ @OnMontagueSt 4 May 2017
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        If trump was impressed with Andrew Jackson's ruthlessness, he would have loved Curtis Lemay.

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      1. Karendipitee‏ @Karendipitee 4 May 2017
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        Thanks for IDing the cigar.

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      1. MBY‏ @mihailoy 4 May 2017
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        JFK is pointing to a hot blonde he did in Vegas.

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      2. QuodEratDemonstrandum‏ @kwyzner 4 May 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        AKA Bombs Away LeMay, father of the carpet bombing campaign in Vietnam.

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      3. Le Redresseur‏ @le_redresseur 4 May 2017
        Replying to @kwyzner @BeschlossDC

        Also costly low altitude B-29 bombing in Japan.

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      1. jdrower‏ @jdrower 4 May 2017
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        JFK and Dr Strangelove

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