Inside JFK’s Decisionmaking During the Cuban Missile Crisis

No other event offers as relevant lessons about presidential leadership in the nuclear age as those thirteen days in October.
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TWE Remembers: JFK Prepares to Tell the Nation About Soviet Missiles in Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Six)

Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President John F. Kennedy, and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara meet in the Cabinet Room in January 1961.(Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy ...
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TWE Remembers: JFK Fakes a Cold (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Five)

Have you ever faked an illness to get out of a meeting or to avoid an obligation? President John F. Kennedy can do you one better. He faked a cold on Saturday, October 20, the fifth day of the Cuban ...
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This day in car history: Kennedy bans trade with Cuba, including cars

In February 1962, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed an embargo on trade between the United States and Cuba. Known among Cubans as “el bloqueo” or “the blockade,” the embargo consists of economic ...