Point Five of Ten Points of Agreement

5.      President Kennedy has long been portrayed as a Cold War hawk, but this grossly inaccurate view has been strongly challenged over the years by revisionist historians and researchers, who have demonstrated that Kennedy was frequently at odds with his own generals and espionage officials. This revisionist interpretation of the Kennedy presidency is now widely embraced, even by mainstream Kennedy biographers.

JFK was a hawk at first but after the CIA betrayal at the Bay of Pigs and the military's insistence of invading Cuba and going to war convinced him to change his attitude, as signatory James Douglas accurately describes in his book "Why JFK was Killed and Why it Matters."