CSPAN2 Kenneth Walsh Presidential Leadership In Crisis July 13, 2024
Steering us through this confrontation that could have ended up in a terrible nuclear war. Later it was revealed we had actually traded outmoded missiles in turkey and a promise not to invade cuba for removal of the soviet missiles but that wasnt disclosed at the time. It was a deft communication strategy. My concluding point, kennedy, unflappable, the guy, completely misread, failing in his own defining moment that kennedy really understood the stakes involved in the risks that were taken but he pursued in the end a crude and sensible way of dealing with this and is given credit for that. Lyn...