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Thirteen days; a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis. With an afterword by Richard E. Neustadt and Graham T. Allison.

Title
Thirteen days; a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis. With an afterword by Richard E. Neustadt and Graham T. Allison.
Author
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
Publication
New York, Norton [1971]

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Additional Authors
  • Allison, Graham T.
  • Neustadt, Richard E.
Description
184 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
  • Robert Kennedy recounts the details of his brother's direction of the American response to the Cuban missile crisis.
  • "The thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union in the Caribbean are now a matter of history. But very few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it has been preserved in this book by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In a clear and simple record, he describes the personalities involved in the crisis, calling particular attention to the actions and attitudes of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. He describes the president's advisers in their working sessions and the daily, even hourly, exchanges between Russian representatives and American. Moreover, he explores the frightening responsibility of two great nations holding the fate of the world in their hands and the moral burden they must bear. Frustration, anger, tension, dignity, and wisdom were all at work as the Cuban missile crisis reached its peak. Robert F. Kennedy has conveyed all of that feeling in his remarkable narrative." -- Back cover
Subject
  • 1962
  • Military bases, Soviet > Cuba
  • Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States
  • United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 179-180.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962 -- The President knew he would have to act -- A majority opinion for a blockade -- It was now up to one single man -- The important meeting of the OAS -- I met with Dobrynin -- The danger was anything but over -- There were almost daily communications with Khrushchev -- Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion -- This would mean war -- Those hours in the cabinet room -- The President ordered the ex comm -- Some of the things we learned -- The importance of placing ourselves in the other country's shoes.
ISBN
0393098966
LCCN
^^^73141589^//r892
OCLC
  • 152938
  • SCSB-10109010
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library