And finally, Arthur Schlesinger has died at the age of 89. Schlesinger was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and key figure in the Kennedy White House. He was an early supporter of the Vietnam War, but in his later years an opponent of the invasion of Iraq. In his memoirs, Schlesinger expressed regret for helping suppress a New Republic story that showed the Kennedy administration was training Cuban mercenaries before the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Arthur Schlesinger: “The First World War and the Second World War were collaborative wars, and that’s why we won them. The fact that only Britain has made a serious military contribution to the unilateralist action of the United States has been one source of trouble. I think no one can defend the evident mess. It’s like the [Vietnam] quagmire re-enacted.”