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Four days after Castro's original offer, a fund-raising committee was formed with three distinguished Americans at its head: Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Milton Eisenhower and United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther. Not until three days later did the White House admit that President Kennedy himself had recruited the committee heads. At least one of the top committee members felt that he had been bilked by Kennedy: he had understood in his telephone conversation with the President that the whole project would receive publicly announced White House backing from the very start...
...tried to set a condition: "The raising and negotiation of this problem cannot be made only by cablegram, and it is better that a delegation should be sent to Cuba. In this there should be one of the principal members of the committee, preferably Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt or Milton Eisenhower." Castro obviously was elated at the prospect of making propaganda headlines out of having a Roosevelt or an Eisenhower come hat in hand to Havana...
...Milton Eisenhower and Eleanor Roosevelt turned down the invitation immediately. The committee then wired Castro: "The committee does not believe that the interests either of the prisoners involved or of Cuba's need for raising agricultural production can be best served by a propaganda duel through an exchange of cables." The committee was prepared to ship 100 tractors to Castro within two weeks, with other lots of 100 to follow. Neither Eleanor Roosevelt nor Milton Eisenhower would go to Havana -but the committee had in mind sending six U.S. engineers and farm experts to complete negotiations. And, following...
...hard core of the 800-man group is 175 fulltime employees who are classified as "civilian personnel.'' With little real responsibility, many of the remaining 625 might be bored with the Guard-were it not for the annual training in Gulfport. Says Louisiana's Colonel Milton O. Barth: "It's a real fine morale factor." Says Lieut. Colonel Daniel F. Hynes, the 159th's executive officer: "These men are dedicated." They sure are -and they sure ought...
...tractors Fidel Castro demanded as ransom for 1,200 imprisoned Cuban survivors of the Bay of Pigs invasion were ready, and the Tractors-for-Freedom Committee, headed by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Walter Reuther and Dr. Milton Eisenhower, was prepared to deliver them to the Cuban dictator in lots of 100. The committee still had no visible funds to pay for the tractors, but hoped to find them in 25,000 unopened letters. If and when Castro agreed to the deal, the committee would open the letters. But in order to pay the $16 million tab, each letter would have...