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EPILOGUE Kennedy began as Pr~sident of the U.s. with the aggression that was underway, that he inherited, that he approved, and that he lost. The most difficult day for the revolution was the 19th of April 1961 when in sight of our troops was part of the North American fleet with marines, destroyers, aircraft carriers, etc. Kennedy vacillated. If at that moment he had decided to invade us, he could have suffocated the island in a sea of blood, but he would have destroyed the revolution. Luckily for us, he vacillated. If instead of Kennedy we h2d had any of the later presidents, they would have intervened and destroyed the revolution. (Translation of a comment by Raul Castro during an interview with Teresa Gurza of El Dia, Mexico, 19 September 1975) '. 252