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

By: Kennedy, Robert F, 1925-1968Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Norton [1971]Description: 184 p. 22 cmISBN: 0393098966; 9780393098969Subject(s): Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 | Military bases, Soviet -- Cuba | United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United StatesAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Thirteen days.LOC classification: E183.8.R9 | K43 1971
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.
Summary: Robert Kennedy recounts the details of his brother's direction of the American response to the Cuban missile crisis.
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Bibliography: p. 179-180.

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.

Robert Kennedy recounts the details of his brother's direction of the American response to the Cuban missile crisis.

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