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Above & beyond : John F. Kennedy and America's most dangerous Cold War spy mission

Above & beyond : John F. Kennedy and America's most dangerous Cold War spy mission

Book 2018

"In 1963, President Kennedy gave the commencement address at the American University in Washington, DC. The Cuban Missile Crisis had forced him to reexamine the Cold War and his onetime foe Nikita Khrushchev. Those tense thirteen days in October 1962 had brought both leaders closer together as the world itself drew perilously close to nuclear war. JFK had pushed for direct contact with his Soviet counterpart and had a special hotline installed be...