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Mcgahn will be there next year because hes made very clear to people he doesnt know that hes going to last past the midterms, so better to do it now. there were other messages quietly sent -- if youre not going to retire now, best to wait until after 2020. >> right. >> and so, i think that all of that put together, i dont think that there was an effort to push kennedy. i dont even think that would have been well received, but i certainly think there was a message sent to, you know, this is going...

The president had used his brother, bobby, to send ideas to the soviet union. to give the soviets a sense of what kennedy might want to agree to or discuss at vienna and the soviets werent interested. they werent buying. they wanted to push kennedy. they wanted to see if he would break, because they wanted to change the nature of the relationship in west berlin. so when kennedy goes to khrushchev and meets with him, its an ambush and turns out very difficult for the president and is somewhat pol...