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>> he sold me a warship that passes the quarantine line, we are going to abort. this would have been an act very close to war. a russian ship does pull us in line. you know what he says? let's give them one more day. it's like he was saying, let's give peace one more day. he had just finished reading the book, the guns of war. you know what he says? >> that book is about -- >> it's about how the nation stumbled into world war i by one escalation after another. if i make a mistake about the cuban missile crisis of october, he knew the world was on the verge of nuclear war and he had to give him...

Been one thing where he triumphed in a complicated test of wills. >> the cuban missile crisis is not enough. we were on the verge of nuclear war with russia. when you listen to the tapes of the executive committee, you sometimes feel like almost everybody in that room was arguing for an invasion or a bombing strike. every time things got heated, he says something like, gentlemen, let's take a break and have dinner and we'll come back and talk. so it's like -- >> he's pulling them back. >> he's pulling them back. he said he's going to stop any soviet warship that passes the quarantine line, we'...