Need To Know | Jon Meacham: Lessons from the Bay of Pigs | PBS
Duration: 02:40
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Need to Know #148
Broadcast Date: Apr. 8, 2011
Jon Meacham offers a comparison between President Kennedy's mistakes during the Bay of Pigs and the difficulties President Obama faces in the current political climate
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