90 years before the bay of pigs invasion, he faced political pressure to intervene militarily in Cuba but did not do so. This man and Harry Truman share a middle initial that doesn't stand for anything. He believed that he may have been an intended secondary target of a famous assassination and might have been killed were it not for his wife turning down the invitation from his commander in chief to go to the theater that night. During his retirement he visited Germany and met a famous Berliner. His memorial was turned over to the National Park Service in 1958. After his death, the sales of his biography supported his wife. For ten points, who is this national hero?
90 years before the bay of pigs invasion, he faced political pressure to intervene militarily in Cuba but did not do so. This man and Harry Truman share a middle initial that doesn't stand for anything. He believed that he may have been an intended secondary target of a famous assassination and might have been killed were it not for his wife turning down the invitation from his commander in chief to go to the theater that night. During his retirement he visited Germany and met a famous Berliner. His memorial was turned over to the National Park Service in 1958. After his death, the sales of his biography supported his wife. For ten points, who is this national hero?
90 years before the bay of pigs invasion, he faced political pressure to intervene militarily in Cuba but did not do so.