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Personally.”. John F Kennedy, responding to Curtis LeMay (above), October 1962. “We were eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.”. Dean Rusk, US Secretary to State on the Cuban missile crisis, October 1962. “It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington.
John F. Kennedy. Freedom, Goal, Victory. 51 Copy quote. Show source. We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked. Dean Rusk. War, Thinking, Cold. 53 Copy quote. Show source. Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis.
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- “Someone once said that World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons and the next war with sticks and stones.” ― Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- “In the nuclear age, superpowers make war like porcupines make love—carefully.” ― Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- “It was not only for Americans that he was concerned, or primarily the older generation of any land. The thought that disturbed him the most, and that made the prospect of war much more fearful than it would otherwise have been, was the specter of the death of the children of this country and all the world—the young people who had no role, who had no say, who knew nothing even of the confrontation, but whose lives would be snuffed out like everyone else’s.
- “Recent scholarship confirms the portrait of John F. Kennedy sketched by his brother in Thirteen Days: a remarkably cool, thoughtful, nonhysterical, self-possessed leader, aware of the weight of decision, incisive in his questions, firm in his judgment, always in charge, steering his advisers perseveringly in the direction he wanted to go.
Mar 2, 2024 · Fifty years ago, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. During the standoff, US President John F. Kennedy thought the chance of escalation to war was "between 1 in 3 and even," and what we have learned in later decades has done nothing to lengthen those odds.
3 days ago · Description: Audio recording of President John F. Kennedy’s radio and television address to the nation regarding the former Soviet Union’s military presence in Cuba. In his speech President Kennedy reports the establishment of offensive missile sites presumably intended to launch a nuclear offensive against Western nations.
We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." Visit our online exhibit: World on the Brink: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. In October 1962, an American U2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba.
President Kennedy and his advisers consider the ramifications of trading Jupiter missiles in Turkey for Soviet missiles in Cuba. Listen to Miller Center recordings from the signature moment of John F. Kennedy's presidency.
