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Thirteen days : a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis / Robert F. Kennedy ; with introductions by Robert S. McNamara and Harold Macmillan.

By: Series: On lining papersPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 1969.Edition: 1st edDescription: 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Other title:
  • 13 days
  • Memoir of the Cuban missile crisis
  • Cuban missile crisis
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.73/047
LOC classification:
  • E183.8.R9 K42
  • DK69 .F69
NLM classification:
  • 000080420
Contents:
Introduction / Robert S. McNamara -- Introduction / Harold Macmillan -- Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962 -- The President ... knew he would have to act -- A majority decision ... for a blockade -- It was not 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 could 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.
Summary: During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In a clear and simple record, he describes the personalities involved in the crisis, with particular attention to the actions and attitudes of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. He describes the daily, even hourly, exchanges between Russian representatives and American.
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"Documents": pages 163-218.

Facsim. on lining papers.

Introduction / Robert S. McNamara -- Introduction / Harold Macmillan -- Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962 -- The President ... knew he would have to act -- A majority decision ... for a blockade -- It was not 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 could 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.

During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In a clear and simple record, he describes the personalities involved in the crisis, with particular attention to the actions and attitudes of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. He describes the daily, even hourly, exchanges between Russian representatives and American.

"Documents" p. 163-218.

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