Word: 28s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that under no circumstances would we trade American missiles for the Soviet missiles in Cuba. Yet, he sent his brother Robert to the then Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin to offer just such a trade. Kennedy offered to remove our Jupiter missiles from Turkey if the Soviets would take their IL-28s out of Cuba. The deal was concluded, and a year later the Jupiter missiles were removed as quietly and inconspicuously as possible. In his later memoirs, Robert Kennedy wrote that the missiles in Turkey had become "hostages of the Soviet Union." Meanwhile, President Kennedy was unabashedly lying to the public...