And after we’ve struck Cuba?
Thomas Powers, 13 November 1997
The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis
edited by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow.
Harvard, 728 pp., £23.50, October 1997,0 674 17926 9 Show More
edited by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow.
Harvard, 728 pp., £23.50, October 1997,
‘One Hell of a Gamble’: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali.
Murray, 420 pp., £25, September 1997,0 7195 5518 3 Show More
by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali.
Murray, 420 pp., £25, September 1997,
“... October 1962 was not August 1914 because John Kennedy had learned the lessons of Munich, which may be summarised as follows: get angry in private, think before you speak, say what you want, make clear what you’re prepared to do, ignore bluster, repeat yourself as often as necessary and keep the pressure on. Where Kennedy learned the mixture of forbearance and resolution which lies at the heart of international peace and good marriages is a mystery; his mother and father were no better at solving problems than Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler ... ”