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...transcript gives bite to Kennedy's comment," Neustadt said...
...transcript is solid evidence that nuclear war is certainly possible, Allison said. "The crisis is the best window for looking at the problem of nuclear war which is today a great concern...
...transcripts of former president john I. Kennedy's '40 secet White House recomings on the Cuben Missile crisis were release yesterday. The 33 minute taps and the accompanying 87 page transcript contain tense discussion between Kennedy and his top aide on possible responses to the Soviet deployment of missiles 90 miles south of the United States...
...First is that if we are to conduct an air strike against these installations, or against any part of Cuba, we must agree now that we will schedule that prior to the time these missile sites become operational," said Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. In the talks, the transcript reveals that the administration's strongest concern was whether these sites could be used to deploy missiles within a two week period. During these meetings, however, the administration agreed on action which eventually succeeded in forcing the Soviets to remove the missiles: A U.S. blockade of Cuba, and Kennedy's public...
...denouement was jarring in its swift resolution and therefore a bit surreal. Nearly 800 days after the Watergate breakin, 289 days after the Saturday Night Massacre, 97 days after the White House transcripts were released, twelve days after the Supreme Court voted, 8 to 0, that the President must surrender 64 more tapes, five days after the House Judiciary Committee voted out articles of impeachment, Nixon's defenses finally vanished. On Monday he issued the June 23, 1972, transcript that amounted to a confession to obstruction of justice and to lying to the American people. With that his clock...