Video: 'April 22, 1961 - President John F. Kennedy meets former President Dwight Eisenhower at Camp David'

(Saturday, April 22, 1961, 12:46-2:30 p.m. EST; during the Cold War) — President John F. Kennedy and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower shaped a policy of national unity today following the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, conferring for 90 minutes at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.

“I am all in favor of the United States supporting the man who has to carry the responsibility for our foreign affairs,” Eisenhower said after the conference ended.

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President Kennedy told reporters he had invited his predecessor, out of office for three months and two days, to meet with him “to bring him up to date on recent events and get the benefits of his thoughts and experience.”

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The plan for a covert, CIA-led overthrow of Cuba’s new leader, Fidel Castro, was hatched under Eisenhower, who increasingly saw Castro as aligned with communists in the Soviet Union.

When John F. Kennedy was elected president and presented with the mission — then still being planned — he agreed and took full responsibility in the aftermath.