Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Missiles in Turkey
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Participants: John Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, Alexis Johnson
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President Kennedy and his advisers consider the ramifications of trading Jupiter missiles in Turkey for Soviet missiles in Cuba.
JFK and Harold Macmillan on the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Participants: John Kennedy, Harold Macmillan
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Kennedy placed this call after having held crisis meetings with advisers all day. Macmillan received the call around midnight London time. U Thant, acting secretary-general of the United Nations, had been holding round-the-clock talks in New York. In the latest development, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson∇, had met with U Thant earlier that day in New York. U Thant, in turn, had been talking Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations Valerian Zorin.
"You're in a Pretty Bad Fix"
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Participants: John Kennedy, Curtis LeMay
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While discussing various options for dealing with the threat posed by Soviet missiles in Cuba, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, after criticizing calls to blockade the island, sums up the President's political and military troubles.
