What would have changed if Nixon was in charge of the Bay of Pigs invasion? The Bay of Pigs invasion is widely known to have failed because of the lack of US support during the invasion. Kennedy, seeking a way to limit his administration’s ties to the invasion in case it failed, called off all air support which caused the loss. However, I believe if Nixon was in charge when the invasion happened, the invasion would have succeeded. Nixon’s aggression in the Vietnam war facing similar circumstances showed that he is more willing to invest force like to bombing of Hanoi to get results. This event promotes his willingness because it happened during Nixon’s Vietnamization phase which pulled out US support of the South Vietnamese. Kennedy, being a new kind of president with a different agenda than his predecessors like seeking out peace with the USSR bolstered his anti invasion decision.

Some sources:

Matthews, Christopher. “A Bay of Pigs Connection to Watergate.” SFGate, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2012, www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-Bay-of-Pigs-connection-to-Watergate-3112357.php.

Voss, Michael. “Bay of Pigs: The ‘Perfect Failure’ of Cuba Invasion.” BBC News, BBC, 14 Apr. 2011, www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-13066561.