John F Kennedy

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• 9/8/19
  

  The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Trollope Ploy Myth

  by Sheldon M. Stern

  What we often get wrong about the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

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• 5/26/19
  

  How About a Peace Race Instead of an Arms Race?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  On September 25, 1961, dismayed by the Soviet Union’s recent revival of nuclear weapons testing, John F. Kennedy used the occasion of his address to the United Nations to challenge the Russians “not to an arms race, but to a peace race.” 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10-7-15
  

  Tim Naftali: Declassified JFK documents reveal a cunning and cagey president

  Back channels to the Soviets, the ‘girlfriend system’ and doubts about LBJ: historian Timothy Naftali paints a portrait of a President Kennedy ‘far more interesting intellectually and far less appealing personally’