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Cuban Missile Crisis
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  • The Cuban missile crisis does not mark the end of efforts to get rid of Castro.†   (source)
  • And while the Cuban missile crisis has seen JFK's approval rating soar to 79 percent, not everyone is happy about the growing Kennedy influence.†   (source)
  • But he is a changed man since the Cuban missile crisis, and far more enchanted by Jackie than by other women—at least for the time being.†   (source)
  • The bond between Jack and Bobby Kennedy became tighter than ever during the Cuban missile crisis, even as Lyndon Johnson once again stumbled.†   (source)
  • Then, like the rest of America, Walker was soon distracted by the barrage of radio and television reports documenting the Cuban missile crisis.†   (source)
  • He sees a comparison between the successful outcome of the Cuban missile crisis and Abraham Lincoln's stable leadership that brought about the end of the Civil War.†   (source)
  • What will become known as the Cuban missile crisis is now four days old, and his ExComm team—short for Executive Committee of the National Security Council—is close to formulating an aggressive strategy to avert a nuclear attack.†   (source)
  • The president's words underscore a painful truth: unlike the Cuban missile crisis or even the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the civil rights situation is a problem over which John Kennedy has little direct control.†   (source)
  • Camelot's demise could have originated during the Cuban missile crisis, when JFK scored a decisive public relations victory over Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Empire, while at the same time frustrating his top generals and what Dwight Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex" for refusing to launch a war.†   (source)
  • In a speech he gave the summer after the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy spoke of peace: "Let us not be blind to our differences—but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.†   (source)
  • His "grace under pressure" and his brilliant judgment during the Cuban Missile Crisis led to a new chapter in Soviet-Americanrelations and made it possible to negotiate the first treaty banning the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, outer space, and underwater.†   (source)
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