Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile CrisisW. W. Norton & Company, 25 abr 2011 - 192 páginas "A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history." —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants during the sometimes hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a new foreword, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light, especially from the Soviet Union. |
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... asked them: hence the Havana meeting, in which Fidel Castro took an active part. My belief when I went to Havana was that we had overdramatized the danger. After all, Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, was well aware that the United ...
... asked Khrushchev to go public when he delivered the missiles. “Why do it secretly—as if we had no right to do it?” After all, the Soviet Union had every right under international law to send the missiles and Cuba had every right to ...
... asked whether his brass hats would guarantee that keeping the missiles in Cuba would not bring about nuclear war, they looked at him, he later told Norman Cousins of the Saturday Review, an informal emissary between Kennedy and ...
... asked me to come to the White House. He said only that we were facing great trouble. Shortly afterward, in his office, he told me that a U-2 had just finished a photographic mission and that the Intelligence Community had become ...
... . No official within the government had ever suggested to President Kennedy that the Russian buildup in Cuba would include missiles. On a number of occasions, the President had asked for a specific evaluation on what the.
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The important meeting of the OAS | |
The danger was anything but over | |
This would mean war | |
Some of the things we learned | |
THE CUBAN MISSILE | |
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT KENNEDY | |
A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
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