KENNETH O'DONNELL
(Kenneth Patrick O'Donnell)
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O’Donnell said this after informing Joe Califano and Cyrus Vance that President Kennedy would not be returning to a meeting about a proposal they had made to start a misinformation campaign to keep Cuban forces on a constant state of alert in February, 1963. The memo had sparked argument between Vance and State Department representatives.
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Kenneth Patrick O'Donnell was an American political consultant and the special assistant and appointments secretary to President John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. O'Donnell was a close friend of President Kennedy and his younger brother Robert F. Kennedy, and was part of the group of Kennedy's close advisers dubbed the “Irish Mafia.”
