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APPENDIX C 1. "On April 17 Praegerpublished The Cuban Invasion, in which New York Times correspondent Tad Szulc and Washington "Post correspondent Karl E. Meyer indict CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff as re- sponsible for the disaster at tbe Bay of Pigs (NR. review, May 22). Although the Times' Sunday Book Review is normally prompt and generous in alloting space to products of its own stable, five Sundays have gone by and nary a peep about The Cuban Invasion. In explanation therefor a north- ering bird brought us the following information. Both authors are close to Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Richard Goodwin of the White House staff. They have told various friends that their book was undertaken on White House inspiration and that Messrs. Schlesinger and Goodwin helped them get the Real Dope. The Times sent an advance copy on for review to Hal Hendrix, Latin American editor of the Miami Daily News. Mr. Hendrix offered first one draft, then another, but both were rejected by the Times as too unsympathetic. The Times then went shopping for a more friendly critic. Now here is the curiosity in this drab little story: that one faction within the White House promotes a book which (with multiple error and distortion, moreover) slashes into two other (and not the least important) arms of the government (CIA and Joint Chiefs); and that singular in- stitution, the Times Sunday Book Review, takes care that the book shall be warmly received." The National Review, 5 June 1962 2. The Meyer and Szu1c book, incidentally, included the following remarks about Schlesinger and Goodwin: "Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., the Harvard historian who had joined the White House staff as a kind of troubleshooter. A shrewd veteran of intelligence service during World War II, Schlesinger brought a discreet skepticism to bear on discussions of the invasion proposal." (p. 101) 259